PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16224388
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["246", "185000"]

Abstract:
An anti-collision system for railcars and locomotives and, more particularly, to a distance ranging and worker coupling protection system utilizes remote-sensing radar techniques for use with a locomotive and railcar. The anti-collision system may include an object detector device attached to a railcar or a locomotive that detects objects in a path of the railcar and the locomotive and a train display device electrically connected to the object detector device. The anti-collision system may also include an emergency action device which enables a crew member to stop the railcar or locomotive without communication to a locomotive operator when a hazard is recognized. The object detector device may include a remote sensor, a radio, and a microprocessor programmed to include data-logging to record and log all data from the anti-collision system.

Claim (Index 17):
A method including:\n attaching a user-based emergency action device to a crew member, the emergency action device including a transmitter and an emergency stop button; providing a train display device in communication with the user-based emergency action device, and configured to provide a warning when the emergency stop button is pressed to immediately stop a locomotive and stop an unsafe movement of the locomotive; when a hazard is recognized, pressing, by the crew member, the emergency stop button and the transmitter sending a signal to a locomotive transceiver in communication with the transmitter, wherein the locomotive transceiver is configured to be responsive to and in communication with the emergency action device and the transmitter, wherein the locomotive transceiver is located in a cab of the locomotive; sending, by the locomotive transceiver, an emergency stop signal to a set of brakes on the locomotive to stop, wherein the transmitter and transceiver enables the crew member to stop the locomotive without communication to a locomotive operator when the hazard is recognized; opening a relay valve to release air from a brake pipe, and thereby applying the set of brakes and bringing the locomotive to an immediate stop; and resetting the emergency action device only when the crew member pushes the emergency stop button a second time, which sends a reset signal closing the relay valve and releasing the set of brakes, indicating that the hazard has been resolved.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91667
- Patent Class: 246.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15191198', '15133935', '15894066', '15240429', '12093217']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6779816413034659
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5166751672194385
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6618509938950632
- Mean Citation Score: 258.729286
- Max Citation Score: 408.20602
- Similarity Product: 390.064991162088

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

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