PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982030
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["198", "480100"]

Abstract:
A transport device includes a conveyor, a plurality of movable guide rails each of which is provided at a corresponding one of a plurality of locations along a lateral width direction, a drive shaft disposed to extend along the lateral width direction, and an actuator configured to drivingly rotate the drive shaft. A plurality of cam members are fixed to the drive shaft in respective fixing attitudes. Each movable guide rail of a plurality of movable guide rails is configured to be moved to change a height thereof depending on a fixing attitude of corresponding one of the cam members as the actuator drivingly rotates the drive shaft.

Claim (Index 6):
The transport device as defined in  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a pair of fixed guide rails extending along the transport direction so that one and the other of the pair of fixed guide rails are located on one side and the other side respectively, in the lateral width direction, with respect to the plurality of movable guide rails, wherein the plurality of movable guide rails include a pair of first movable guide rails configured to be moved to change heights thereof in synchronization with each other, and a pair of second movable guide rails which are so located that one and the other of the pair of second movable guide rails are located on one side and the other side respectively, in the lateral width direction, with respect to the pair of first movable guide rails, and which are configured to be moved to change heights thereof in synchronization with each other, and wherein the actuator is configured to change a rotation phase angle of the drive shaft to: a first phase angle at which the pair of first movable guide rails project above a support height of a transported object being transported by the conveyor and entireties of the pair of second movable guide rails are located below the support height; a second phase angle at which the pair of second movable guide rails project above the support height and entireties of the pair of first movable guide rails are located below the support height; and a third phase angle at which the entireties of the pair of second movable guide rails and the entireties of the pair of first movable guide rails are located below the support height.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13997026', '13680384', '15029331', '14362217', '12377286']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.68010250063521
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4677268685731856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6588649374290076
- Mean Citation Score: 188.207956
- Max Citation Score: 191.26138
- Similarity Product: 137.20790714866996

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

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