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 18):
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 an arc below the top surface from the entrance to the exit wherein, in a plan view perpendicular to the top surface, each of the coils has a narrow end at the inside of the arc and an opposite wider end at the outside of the arc; \n wherein the electrically conductive articles are directed from the entrance to the exit by the coils 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: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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