PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742641
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "029700"]

Abstract:
A ground loss detection circuit identifies a faulty ground connection in a vehicle electrical system including a pair of redundant ground lines connected between a vehicle battery/chassis ground and an electronic control unit (ECU). In particular, a first ground line is connected between the battery/chassis ground and a first ECU ground connection, while a second ground line is connected between the battery/chassis ground location and a second ECU ground connection. The ECU includes a common ground associated with selected electronic components included in the ECU. A first shunt component is connected between the first ECU ground connection and the common ground, and a second shunt component is connected between the second ECU ground connection and the common ground. The currents through the first and second shunt components are monitored to identify a current imbalance to detect a faulty ground connection in one of the first and second ground lines.

Claim (Index 8):
The method according to  claim 6  wherein step (c) identifies a faulty ground connection when the current in either the first or second ground line is below a predetermined level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12719529', '12549901', '13077145', '12403235', '15024559']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4002641721889124
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4785120724098263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4080889622110039
- Mean Citation Score: 135.849616
- Max Citation Score: 137.60963
- Similarity Product: 93.59950859704615

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