PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16087948
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["440", "001000"]

Abstract:
A ship ( 100 ) including: an out-drive unit ( 20 ) that exerts a propulsion force on a ship hull ( 1 ) by power from an engine ( 10 ); a detection device ( 5 ) for detecting a current position, a bow direction, and a moving speed of the ship hull; a shift lever ( 41 ) that changes magnitude and direction of an output from the out-drive unit; a lever sensor ( 53 ) that detects a manipulation position of the shift lever; and a ship steering control device ( 30 ) that is connected to the out-drive unit, the detection device, and the lever sensor. The ship steering control device acquires the operating status of the out-drive unit and the detection results obtained by the detection device and the lever sensor and controls the out-drive unit based on the detection results. The ship steering control device performs a dynamic positioning control when the shift lever is in the positioning position.

Claim (Index 1):
A ship comprising:\n a propulsion unit configured to exert a propulsion force on a ship hull by power from an engine; detection means for detecting a current position, a bow direction, and a moving speed of the ship hull; a shift lever configured to change magnitude and direction of an output from the propulsion unit; a lever sensor configured to detect a manipulation position of the shift lever; and a control device connected to the propulsion unit, the detection means, and the lever sensor, the control device being configured to acquire an operating status of the propulsion unit and detection results obtained by the detection means and the lever sensor, and to control the propulsion unit based on the detection results, wherein the manipulation position of the shift lever includes at least four positions of a forward traveling position, a neutral position, a reverse traveling position, and a positioning position, and the control device performs a dynamic positioning control in a case where the manipulation position of the shift lever detected by the lever sensor is in the positioning position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52857
- Patent Class: 440.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16087916', '12393114', '13262961', '12389480', '15520625']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5514042434876018
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4828447687682949
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5445482960156711
- Mean Citation Score: 198.111808
- Max Citation Score: 247.83524
- Similarity Product: 209.481232452488

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

Dataset: test