PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16145843
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "502100"]

Abstract:
An improved system for monitoring drive members in a belt-driven application during installation and during operation and for detecting common failure modes in belt-driven equipment is disclosed. Sensors are positioned within or proximate the motor housing to detect vibrations on the belt or in the electric machine. The vibration signals are used to monitor operating conditions and/or to identify the failure modes in belt-driven equipment. The vibration signals may be used, for example, to determine tension on a belt, detect either a static or dynamic force applied along the belt, a misalignment between a pulley and the belt, or a shock load applied to the belt during operation. By monitoring the various operating conditions of the belt-driven equipment, a controller may identify an existing failure mode or predict a premature failure mode.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for monitoring operation of drive members in a belt-driven system, comprising the steps of:\n receiving a signal at an input of a motor controller from at least one sensor corresponding to a vibration present on a belt in the belt-driven system, wherein a motor is connected to and controlled by the motor controller and wherein the motor is operative to drive the belt; determining a characteristic of the vibration present in the belt-driven system with the motor controller as a function of the signal received at the motor controller; and determining a tension present on the belt with the motor controller as a function of the characteristic of the vibration present in the belt-driven system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93243
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11924438', '15451052', '13614637', '12828650', '11101597']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.735672495161869
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4490758054122249
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7070128261869045
- Mean Citation Score: 179.85155000000003
- Max Citation Score: 184.76682
- Similarity Product: 144.55667243367432

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

Dataset: test