PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933926
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["701", "093000"]

Abstract:
A method of determining the optimum vehicle gap distance for a vehicle in a platoon, the vehicle having a cooling fan and a coolant-based cooling system. The vehicle's vehicle control system determines a base gap distance, based on safety considerations related to platoon operation. A gap control process stores a fan turn-on threshold temperature, which is less than the coolant temperature that will result in the vehicle's cooling fan becoming activated. During vehicle operation, the gap control process receives a current coolant temperature value, and compares that value to the fan turn-on threshold temperature. If the coolant temperature is at or above the fan turn-on threshold temperature, the vehicle is operated to increase the base gap distance.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the coolant-based cooling system has a radiator, and the coolant temperature is measured with a thermometer at the radiator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20339
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15605456', '15904415', '15174090', '15926813', '15364342']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4330811827361346
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824722142780332
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4380202858903245
- Mean Citation Score: 119.2022848
- Max Citation Score: 122.02363
- Similarity Product: 73.52369814969181

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

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