PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["700", "218000"]

Abstract:
A self-aligning interface ( 6300 ) is attached to a robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ) and provides an interface between an extendable conveyor ( 6200 ) and the robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ). The self-aligning interface ( 6300 ) can include a positional measurement device ( 6320, 6320 b,  6320 c ) mounted on the robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ) and operatively engaged with the extendable conveyor ( 6200 ) to provide positional information about the location of the extendable nose conveyor ( 6220 ) relative to the positional measurement device ( 6320, 6320 b,  6320 c ). A control unit ( 6180 ) is attached to the robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ) for full robotic control of robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ) and the unloading process. The control unit ( 6180 ) is connected to the positional measurement device ( 6320, 6320 b,  6320 c ) and the extendable conveyor ( 6200 ). The control unit ( 6180 ) uses positional information to calculate and control extension and retraction movements of the extendable conveyor ( 6200 ) in unison with the forward and reverse movements of the robotic carton unloader  6100  to ensure unloaded cartons ( 12 ) exiting the moving truck unloader are received on the extendable conveyor ( 6200 ).

Claim (Index 26):
An interface for interfacing a conveyor to a robotic carton unloader, the conveyor to receive unloaded cartons thereon from the robotic carton unloader during the unloading process, the interface comprising:\n a positional measurement device mounted on the robotic carton unloader and operatively engaged with the conveyor to provide positional information about the location of the conveyor relative to the positional measurement device; and a control unit attached to the robotic carton unloader operably connected to the positional measurement device and communicably connected to the conveyor, wherein the control unit utilizes the positional information to control extension and retraction movements of the conveyor to move in unison with the movements of the robotic carton unloader.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18056
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15344183', '15587549', '15351960', '15704976', '14836216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4335489720236589
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6776391246246269
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4579579872837557
- Mean Citation Score: 451.344354
- Max Citation Score: 736.6468
- Similarity Product: 661.9311308213712

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