PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16095388
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["414", "022540"]

Abstract:
A rod handling system for a drilling activity includes i) a rod support defining a first axis, ii) a rod dispensing device positioned adjacent to the rod support for moving a rod between a first lateral side of the rod dispensing device and the rod support, and iii) a rod positioning device that is positioned adjacent to the rod dispensing arm on a second lateral side thereof for moving the rod between a first position, on the rod support, and a second position on a lateral side of the rod positioning device that is opposite the rod dispensing device in a generally vertical orientation. The system has a first advantage of dedicating a different device for each of the two main tasks necessary in order to complete a cycle of inserting or removing drill rods from a drill head. Furthermore, it has a second advantage of reducing the time required to complete an inserting/removing cycle because the whole cycle is performed by two independent devices that can be simultaneously operated.

Claim (Index 1):
A rod handling system comprising:\n a rod support defining a first axis; a rod dispensing device positioned adjacent to the rod support for moving a rod between a first lateral side of the rod dispensing device and the rod support; and a rod positioning device that is positioned adjacent to the rod dispensing arm on a second lateral side thereof for moving the rod between a first position, on the rod support, and a second position on a lateral side of the rod positioning device that is opposite the rod dispensing device in a generally vertical orientation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23457
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14164053', '14430309', '14891532', '15327363', '15593814']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8353695343803558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4664768165316691
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7984802625954871
- Mean Citation Score: 169.99023
- Max Citation Score: 178.44351
- Similarity Product: 133.16978247847618

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

Dataset: test