PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909335
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["172", "460000"]

Abstract:
A tool carrier has a carrier frame and ground tools, and a front end of the carrier frame is connected to a wheel supported tool bar frame. A crank arm is pivotally attached to the tool bar frame about a crank axis oriented horizontally and perpendicular to an operating direction. A front end of the carrier frame is pivotally attached to the crank arm about a carrier axis parallel to the crank axis, and a hydraulic cylinder attached between the crank arm and the tool bar moves the tool carrier from an upward transport orientation to a rearward extending horizontal operating orientation, and maintains the tool carrier horizontal while moving it from a headland position above the ground to a working position where the tools penetrate the ground. When the tool carrier assembly is in the working position, the hydraulic cylinder exerts a downward bias force on the tool carrier.

Claim (Index 1):
An implement apparatus comprising:\n a tool bar frame mounted on tool bar wheels for travel along a ground surface in an operating travel direction; a tool carrier assembly comprising a carrier frame and a plurality of ground engaging tools mounted thereon, the carrier frame connected at a front end thereof to the tool bar frame by a carrier control assembly; wherein the carrier control assembly comprises a crank arm pivotally attached to a rear portion of the tool bar frame about a crank axis oriented substantially horizontally and perpendicular to the operating travel direction, and an extendable hydraulic cylinder attached between the crank arm and the tool bar frame and operative to pivot the crank arm about the crank axis; wherein the carrier frame is pivotally attached at a front end thereof to the crank arm about a carrier axis oriented substantially parallel to the crank axis; wherein the carrier control assembly is configured to move the tool carrier assembly from a transport orientation extending upward from the tool bar frame to an operating orientation extending substantially horizontally rearward from the tool bar frame; wherein the carrier control assembly is configured to maintain the tool carrier assembly in the operating orientation while moving the tool carrier assembly from a headland position, where the ground engaging tools are above the ground, down to a working position where the ground engaging tools penetrate the ground surface; and wherein the carrier control assembly is configured such that when the tool carrier assembly is in the working position, the hydraulic cylinder is operative to exert a downward bias force on the tool carrier assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50794
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15909325', '13953104', '14549725', '13305719', '12783655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7304023363802048
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5115268202942884
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7085147847716131
- Mean Citation Score: 249.273594
- Max Citation Score: 328.8214700000001
- Similarity Product: 253.15079874638863

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

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