PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16197202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "418000"]

Abstract:
A modular transfer system with a primary flow system and a diverter system that is repositionable along a track system. The primary flow system includes a primary flow belt for conveying an article along a primary flow path from an infeed side of the modular transfer system to a pass-through side of the modular transfer system. The diverter system that is repositionable along the track system between the infeed side and the pass-through side by attachment within one or more channels.

Claim (Index 15):
A modular conveyor system comprising:\n a frame having a first end and a second end; a main belt comprising a plurality of hingedly-connected belt modules, each of the plurality of belt modules comprising a body and a plurality of spherical balls, the spherical balls having an upper portion that protrudes above an upper surface of the body and a lower portion that protrudes below a lower surface of the body, the spherical balls configured to rotate relative to the body; a main belt drive unit configured to drive the main belt in a first direction, the main belt drive unit comprising a motor and a drive roller, the drive roller engaged with the main belt at the first end of the frame; a diverter belt configured to travel in a second direction that is generally perpendicular to the first direction, the diverter belt positioned at least partially underneath the main belt such that the diverter belt contacts the protruding lower portion of the spherical balls and the relative movement of the main and diverter belts causes the spherical balls to rotate; a user interface and an input module; wherein the diverter belt is repositionable along a track system extending between the first end and a second end of the main belt; a control system comprising a processor and a computer-readable medium having operation instructions thereon, the operation instructions, when executed by the processor configured to:\n receive a position of a diverter zone; \n detect that an article on the main belt moving in the first direction is at the divert zone; \n determine that the article is to be diverted towards a side of the main belt; and \n operate the diverter belt to cause the article to change from moving primarily in the first direction to moving primarily in the second direction and towards the side of the main belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15385
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15916187', '10853778', '11740334', '10461210', '11246572']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7085815594043843
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4738290555169946
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6851063090156453
- Mean Citation Score: 178.57668600000005
- Max Citation Score: 261.41608
- Similarity Product: 214.3389799322701

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

Dataset: test