PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16061754
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["198", "341070"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method by means of which conveyor belts of belt conveyors, which can be loaded with a bulk material, have their operational behaviour and/or state and/or loading monitored during operation, wherein the belt conveyor has provided on it at least one radar-antenna combination, which consists of at least one transmitting antenna and one receiving antenna and is oriented onto the conveyor belt, wherein a radar-antenna combination arranged to the side of the conveyor belt periodically picks up the reflection from emitted radar beams by way of the side edge of the conveyor belt and/or the loading boundary of a bulk material located on the conveyor belt and communicates corresponding signals to a signal-processing unit, whereas a radar-antenna combination oriented onto the surface of the conveyor belt periodically picks up the reflection of emitted radar beams, on the one hand, by way of the surface of the conveyor belt and, on the other hand, by way of reinforcing supports embedded in the conveyor belt and communicates corresponding signals to a signal-processing unit.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of monitoring the running behavior, the state and/or the load of a conveyor belt during operation of a belt conveyor loadable with a bulk material, the conveyor belt having a side edge and a loading boundary defined by an edge of the bulk material loaded on the conveyor belt, the conveyor belt having a distance between the side edge and the loading boundary, the conveyor belt formed of a surface and a layer of reinforcement materials, the conveyor belt having a thickness between the surface and the layer of reinforcement materials, the steps of the method comprising:\n providing at least one lateral radar antenna at the belt conveyor, the at least one lateral radar antenna having an aperture angle and comprising at least one transmission antenna and one reception antenna; arranging the at least one lateral radar antenna laterally on the conveyor belt and orienting the aperture angle of the at least one lateral radar antenna obliquely from above the side edge of the conveyor belt at least towards the side edge of the conveyor belt and the loading boundary of the bulk material; providing at least one perpendicular radar antenna and arranging the at least one perpendicular radar antenna at another distance from the conveyor belt, the at least one perpendicular radar antenna having another aperture angle that is oriented substantially perpendicular towards the surface of the conveyor belt; providing a signal processing unit, the at least one lateral radar antenna transmitting radar beams toward the conveyor belt and periodically receiving a reflection of the transmitted radar beams by the side edge of the conveyor belt and/or by the loading boundary of the bulk material loaded on the conveyor belt, the at least one lateral radar antenna transmitting corresponding signals to the signal processing unit; and orienting the at least one perpendicular radar antenna onto the surface of the conveyor belt, the at least one perpendicular radar antenna transmitting radar beams and periodically receiving a reflection of the transmitted radar beams by the surface of the conveyor belt and by the layer of reinforcement materials embedded in the conveyor belt, and the at least one perpendicular radar antenna transmitting corresponding signals to the signal processing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36709
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13402611', '15917862', '12211111', '15118122', '15746150']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7039179128732018
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4443170252907048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6779578241149521
- Mean Citation Score: 149.573768
- Max Citation Score: 154.3559
- Similarity Product: 116.82352753641604

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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