PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869955
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "051000"]

Abstract:
A control apparatus for a vehicle, which is provided with a drive power source, drive wheels and a continuously variable transmission, includes a friction-force control portion configured to control a friction force acting between a belt and pulleys of the continuously variable transmission, based on a belt-slip information received from an external device located outside the vehicle. The belt-slip information represents at least one belt slippy area in which a belt slippage is more likely to occur in the continuously variable transmission. The friction-force control portion controls the friction force such that the friction force is made larger in the at least one belt slippy area than in other areas in which the belt slippage is less likely to occur in the continuously variable transmission.

Claim (Index 7):
The control apparatus according to  claim 6 ,\n wherein, when said control apparatus is unable to receive the belt-slip information from the external device, said friction-force control portion increases the friction force in the continuously variable transmission of the vehicle, based on a pressure-increase information received from at least one of other vehicles that are other than the vehicle, each of the other vehicles being provided with a continuously variable transmission including pulleys and a belt that is mounted on the pulleys, said pressure-increase information received from the at least one of the other vehicles representing that a friction force acting between the belt and the pulleys of the continuously variable transmission in each of the at least one of the other vehicles was increased, and wherein, when said friction-force control portion increased the friction force in the continuously variable transmission of the vehicle, based on the pressure-increase information received from the at least one of other vehicles, said friction-force control portion keeps the friction force high until a distance from the vehicle to the at least one of other vehicles becomes the threshold distance or more.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03077
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11185735', '13515562', '10825112', '13790227', '12795244']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4888035429460264
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4955467397390146
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4894778626253252
- Mean Citation Score: 250.761716
- Max Citation Score: 257.84604
- Similarity Product: 191.17882745860567

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

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