PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002161
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["123", "182100"]

Abstract:
A method for starting or stopping an internal combustion engine which reduces starter loading and engine vibrations is provided. The method includes varying a valve stroke of at least one cylinder of the engine such that during the starting or stopping procedure the at least one cylinder undergoes decompression.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for starting or stopping an internal combustion engine, comprising the acts of:\n initiating a starting operation or a stopping operation, varying a valve stroke of an intake valve of at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine such that the at least one cylinder is placed in a decompression state in which a reduced pressure is achieved relative to a pressure that would be present in the at least one cylinder when the valve stroke of the intake valve is a full valve stroke.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.37838
- Patent Class: 123.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13450526', '14899298', '10702719', '13820316', '11164047']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7399201557470365
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4566377301955701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.71159191319189
- Mean Citation Score: 208.286788
- Max Citation Score: 212.46092
- Similarity Product: 187.2356484229612

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test