PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953127
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["198", "370130"]

Abstract:
A conveyor system for conveying electrically conductive articles such as aluminum cans. The conveyor system comprises a plurality of coils below the top surface of an electromagnetic conveyor at a junction between an infeed conveyor and a discharge conveyor. The coils propagate electromagnetic flux waves that induce currents in the electrically conductive articles that force the articles to follow a conveying path from the infeed to the discharge conveyor. Dead spots on the electromagnetic conveyor can be eliminated by adjusting the coil drive waveforms.

Claim (Index 1):
A conveyor system comprising:\n a first conveyor conveying electrically conductive articles in a first direction to an exit end; a second conveyor conveying the electrically conductive articles from an entrance end in a second direction different from the first direction; a diverter forming a junction between the exit end of the first conveyor and the entrance end of the second conveyor; wherein the diverter includes:\n a top surface; \n an entrance adjacent to the exit end of the first conveyor receiving the electrically conductive articles on the top surface from the exit end of the first conveyor; \n an exit adjacent to the entrance end of the second conveyor; \n a plurality of coils arranged in a matrix of contiguous first and second zones below the top surface, wherein the coils in each of the first zones produce an electromagnetic flux wave that travels in the first direction and forces the electrically conductive articles on the top surface above the zone to move in the first direction and the coils in each of the second zones produce an electromagnetic flux wave that travels in the second direction and forces the electrically conductive articles on the top surface above the zone to move in the second direction, wherein at least some of the zones along the entrance are first zones and at least some of the zones along the exit are second zones; \n wherein some of the coils in the diverter are in the first zones and the rest of the coils are in the second zones; \n wherein the electrically conductive articles are directed from the entrance to the exit by the coils in the first and second zones and onto the second conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62963
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15519963', '12405834', '15518443', '14338907', '12633294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7335940764132597
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4607391070068848
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7063085794726222
- Mean Citation Score: 218.215568
- Max Citation Score: 229.27585
- Similarity Product: 185.7092572795242

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

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