PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899492
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["404", "084050"]

Abstract:
An asphalt paving machine includes a drive system that is operated to move the paving machine across a surface to be paved, an asphalt receiving hopper which is adapted to receive asphalt paving material and a distributing auger. A hopper conveyor, which is adapted to transport the asphalt paving material from the asphalt receiving hopper to the distributing auger, includes a hopper conveyor motor and a speed sensor that is associated with the hopper conveyor motor. A vertically-adjustable flow gate that is associated with the hopper conveyor defines the size of the gate opening from the asphalt receiving hopper to the distributing auger, and a flow gate position sensor is adapted to determine the vertical position of the flow gate. A controller includes a timer and is operatively connected to the drive system for moving the paving machine, to the speed sensor for the hopper conveyor motor and to the flow gate position sensor. The controller uses a machine speed signal, a conveyor speed signal and a flow gate signal to measure the amount of asphalt paving material delivered to the distributing auger per unit of time.

Claim (Index 1):
An asphalt paving machine comprising:\n (a) a drive system that is operated to move the paving machine across a surface to be paved; (b) an asphalt receiving hopper which is adapted to receive asphalt paving material; (c) a distributing auger; (d) a hopper conveyor that is adapted to transport the asphalt paving material from the asphalt receiving hopper to the distributing auger, said hopper conveyor comprising:\n (i) a hopper conveyor motor; \n (ii) a speed sensor that is associated with the hopper conveyor motor and adapted to measure the rate of rotation of the hopper conveyor motor; \n (e) a vertically-adjustable flow gate that is associated with the hopper conveyor and adapted to define the size of the gate opening from the asphalt receiving hopper to the distributing auger, said flow gate further comprising a flow gate position sensor that is adapted to determine the vertical position of the flow gate; (f) a controller including a timer, said controller being:\n (i) operatively connected to the drive system for moving the paving machine across the surface to be paved and adapted to receive a machine speed signal indicating the speed at which the paving machine is moving across the surface to be paved; \n (ii) operatively connected to the speed sensor that is associated with the hopper conveyor motor and adapted to receive a conveyor speed signal indicating the speed of the hopper conveyor; \n (iii) operatively connected to the flow gate position sensor and adapted to receive a flow gate signal indicating the vertical position of the flow gate; \n (iv) adapted to use the machine speed signal, the conveyor speed signal and the flow gate signal to measure the amount of asphalt paving material delivered to the distributing auger per unit of time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09375
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14563258', '13525455', '14881794', '11372725', '15592498']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7725457862047906
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5280484337749916
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7480960509618108
- Mean Citation Score: 331.386818
- Max Citation Score: 365.78842
- Similarity Product: 297.21477749121664

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

Dataset: test