PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16130602
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["089", "007000"]

Abstract:
A launcher with a digital range finder that controls the operation of a variable velocity control valve that controls the flow of compressed air delivered to the breech. The launcher includes internal air chamber that fills with compressed air and a restrictor plate housing located on one end of the air chamber. The housing includes a center bore axially aligned with the air chamber. Located inside the center bore is a motorized restrictor plate configured to permit or block the flow of air from the air chamber into the breech. During operation, distance readings from the range finder are processed by a main microprocessor into motor signals that selective rotate the restrictor plate to control the flow of pressurized air and control the distance the projectile travels. In a second embodiment, the launcher is used with a computer controlled ballistic that includes a secondary microprocessor coupled to the main processor that triggers a secondary explosion inside the projectile after being launched.

Claim (Index 6):
A projectile from a launcher travels from the launcher to a desired target wherein the launcher includes body with an internal air chamber that communities with a breech axially aligned with a barrel, a constant air pressure source configured to fill the air chamber with pressurized air sufficient to propel a projectile located inside the breech from the end of a barrel, comprising:\n a. mounting a range finder on the launcher a restrictor plate housing mounted on the body with a center bore that communicates with the air chamber and the breach; b. mounting a rotating restrictor plate inside the restrictor plate bore, when the restrictor plate is transversely aligned inside the restrictor plate bore, the flow of pressurized air from the air chamber to the breech is fully restricted, when the restrictor plate is rotated axially 90 degrees, the flow of pressurized air is substantially unrestricted, c. coupling a drive motor to the restrictor plate that is configured selectively rotate the restrictor plate inside the center bore to control the velocity of pressurized air flowing from the air chamber to the breech, and d. a first processor disposed between the range finder and the drive motor configured to convert distance readings from the range finder into drive motor readings to selectively rotate the restrictor plate to control the velocity of pressurized air into the breech.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08642
- Patent Class: 89.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15664482', '14904346', '15355984', '14367517', '12822826']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7853986375955667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5084900428119834
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7577077781172084
- Mean Citation Score: 268.893634
- Max Citation Score: 313.98483
- Similarity Product: 258.52877112039505

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

Dataset: test