PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16373578
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "070000"]

Abstract:
An automatic braking system and method are provided for controlling the automatic operation of a pneumatic (air) brake system installed on commercial highway vehicles and the like, particular heavy trucks and buses. When a possible collision is detected or an object is detected in proximity to at least one side and/or end of the vehicle, the system automatically operates the existing, factory installed air braking system of the vehicle to avoid a collision or mitigate the collision impact by concurrently pressurizing each of the rear and front pneumatic service brakes of the vehicle. Pressing the existing vehicle brake pedal deactivates the automatic braking system, thereby permitting the driver to take over control of braking at any time.

Claim (Index 1):
An automatic braking system for a vehicle having pneumatic brakes and a vehicle brake pedal, the system comprising:\n a) an actuation apparatus comprising at least one solenoid operated pneumatic valve, wherein the solenoid operated pneumatic valve comprises a solenoid, wherein said valve opens and remains open when the solenoid is energized, and closes and/or remains closed when the solenoid is not energized; b) a collision warning device directly or indirectly electrically connected to said at least one solenoid operated pneumatic valve, wherein the collision warning device continuously monitors the presence of obstacles in front of the vehicle and continuously calculates a closure time of the vehicle with a detected obstacle, wherein said collision warning device causes the solenoid of said at least one solenoid operated pneumatic valve to be energized when said closure time is at or below a pre-set time to collision value and causes each solenoid to remain energized until said closure time is above said pre-set time to collision value or until the vehicle brake pedal is pressed; c) a first air pressure reservoir pneumatically connected to said at least one solenoid operated pneumatic valve; d) front pneumatic brakes pneumatically connected to said at least one solenoid operated pneumatic valve, said front pneumatic brakes comprising a left front brake assembly and a right front brake assembly; and e) rear pneumatic brakes pneumatically connected to said at least one solenoid operated pneumatic valve, said rear pneumatic brakes comprising a left rear pneumatic brake unit and a right rear pneumatic brake unit, wherein each pneumatic brake unit comprises at least one pneumatic brake assembly;\n wherein opening the at least one solenoid operated pneumatic valve activates automatic braking, wherein when the at least one solenoid operated pneumatic valve is open, air flows from the first air pressure reservoir through the at least one solenoid operated pneumatic valve and then concurrently flows to all of the front pneumatic brake assemblies and rear pneumatic brake assemblies, thereby concurrently engaging the front pneumatic brake assemblies and engaging pneumatic brake assemblies of the rear pneumatic brake units, and wherein pressing the vehicle brake pedal causes the solenoid of each open solenoid operated pneumatic valve to de-energize, thereby causing all of said open solenoid operated pneumatic valves to close, and thereby deactivating automatic braking.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16188175', '15439261', '15961656', '14606485', '13483314']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4461654785224758
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5396681290026725
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4555157435704955
- Mean Citation Score: 331.67759399999994
- Max Citation Score: 391.01953
- Similarity Product: 292.4821523768389

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

Dataset: test