PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16218084
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["221", "265000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an item dispensing device that can reduce the height of each device without decreasing the number of items to be stored. The item dispensing device includes: a storage case for storing capsules; an item ejection port provided in a side wall of the storage case; a vertical rotating shaft attached to the storage case; a motor for driving the rotating shaft to rotate; a circular plate provided in a lower part of the storage case and rotated by the rotating shaft, the circular plate being provided with item holders along the circumferential direction, each of the item holders having an opening in the outer circumferential direction and provided to be engageable with a capsule, wherein a part of the outer circumference of the circular plate is opposed to the item ejection port; and a capsule ejection mechanism for energizing the capsule engaged with one of the item holders toward the item ejection port side when the item holder is positioned at the item ejection port.

Claim (Index 1):
An item dispensing device for dispensing a plurality of items, one item at a time, comprising:\n a storage portion for storing the plurality of items; an item ejection port opened in a lower side-wall of the storage portion; a rotating shaft provided in a lower part of the storage portion; a disc-shaped rotor provided in the lower part of the storage portion to rotate along with the rotating shaft, wherein a plurality of substantially half-oval shaped item holders opened radially outward and adapted to hold one item in each holder are disposed along the circumferential direction of the disc-shaped rotor; and an energizing mechanism adapted to energize the item held in one of the plurality of item holders radially outward and push the said item substantially horizontally out of the storage portion through the item ejection port when an opening of the said item holder is aligned with the item ejection port with rotation of the rotor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37333
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16218295', '10796797', '12849580', '11968265', '15050468']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7422201716127657
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5466270775080431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7226608622022934
- Mean Citation Score: 215.077754
- Max Citation Score: 394.37424
- Similarity Product: 313.97438664038657

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

Dataset: test