PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180455
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "465100"]

Abstract:
A transferring speed-change device is provided between an upstream-side stage and a downstream-side stage which are different from each other in conveying speed and conveying pitch. A speed change pinion is meshed with a transferring rack at the same speed as that of an upstream-side pinion; is maintained at the same speed as that of the upstream-side pinion until a main rack is disengaged from the upstream-side pinion; and is used to drive the carrier after the main rack is disengaged from the upstream-side pinion. The speed change pinion is caused to have the same speed as that of a downstream-side pinion immediately before the main rack meshes with the downstream-side pinion; and is maintained at the same speed as that of the downstream-side pinion until the transferring rack is disengaged from the speed change pinion.

Claim (Index 9):
The conveyance apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein\n as the carrier moves, the transferring speed-change device\n causes the speed change pinion to mesh with the rack at a same speed as that of the upstream-side pinion meshed with the rack, \n maintains the speed change pinion at the same speed as that of the upstream-side pinion until the rack is disengaged from the upstream-side pinion, \n drives the carrier by means of the speed change pinion meshed with the rack, after the rack is disengaged from the upstream-side pinion, and \n causes the speed change pinion to have a same speed as that of the downstream-side pinion before the rack meshes with the downstream-side pinion, and \n a mechanism is provided in which, after the rack is transferred to the downstream-side pinion, the transferring speed-change device is shifted so that the speed change pinion is disengaged from the rack, and the transferring speed-change device is returned to an original position thereof in a state where the carrier has moved in the conveyance direction so that the speed change pinion does not mesh with the rack even when the speed change pinion is returned to an original position thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78431
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13074050', '14071989', '15659862', '14061032', '10459548']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7528149625117155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4687164366384902
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.724405109924393
- Mean Citation Score: 209.26622000000003
- Max Citation Score: 215.86626
- Similarity Product: 156.264316161232

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