PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979368
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["126", "573000"]

Abstract:
In an example, the system has a mechanical isolator comprising an elastic material configured to separate the panel rail from the torque tube cause destructive interference with a natural resonant frequency of the system without the mechanical isolator to reduce a mechanical vibration of the system.

Claim (Index 12):
A solar tracker comprising:\n a mass damper structure comprising a mechanical isolator comprising an elastic material configured to separate a panel rail from a torque tube and cause destructive interference with a natural resonant frequency of the solar tracker system without the mechanical isolator to reduce a mechanical vibration of the solar tracker system; wherein the mechanical isolator comprises a rubber like material having a thickness; wherein the mechanical isolator comprises a thickness of material having one or more openings to make the mechanical isolator more flexible in characteristics, each of the openings traversing through the thickness of the mechanical isolator, each of the openings being symmetrically and spatially disposed along a length of the mechanical isolator; the mechanical isolator being characterized by a narrow region along a center of the length in relationship to each edge region of the mechanical isolator. wherein mechanical isolator has a thickness of three inches and less, and a width of two inches and less; wherein the natural resonant frequency ranges from 1 Hz to 10 Hz in a torsional mode, and 1 Hz to 5 Hz in a bending mode; wherein the mechanical vibration leads to failure of the solar tracker system without the mechanical isolator; wherein the mechanical vibration is derived from external wind subjected to the solar tracker system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45455
- Patent Class: 126.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14734981', '15011070', '15261681', '14922087', '15379919']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8338410781175569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5733673674946561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8077937070552669
- Mean Citation Score: 351.94634799999994
- Max Citation Score: 450.7289
- Similarity Product: 439.6396127158046

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

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