PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["198", "788000"]

Abstract:
A system and an apparatus capable of independently driving movers are described herein. The system and apparatus includes: a track that forms a path for movers; a plurality of movers movably mounted on the track for moving along the path; and a plurality of drive elements fixedly arranged along the track. The drive elements each have a surface that is oriented to contact a driven member of the movers. The drive elements are configured to sequentially engage the driven member of a plurality of the movers to provide controlled independent motion of the movers along the track. The drive elements may be driven by rotary motors. A method of independently driving movers is also described herein.

Claim (Index 19):
An apparatus for controlled motion of discrete tooling along a path, said apparatus comprising:\n a web transporting mechanism that moves a web substrate along a first path at a first velocity in the machine direction, wherein at least a portion of said first path is linear; a track that forms a second path for movers, wherein said second path is a closed loop path, wherein at least a portion of said second path for the movers is linear and parallel to the linear portion of the first path for the web substrate; a plurality of movers that are configured to transport tooling, wherein said movers are movably mounted on the track for moving along said closed loop second path, said movers comprising a driven member that is oriented to be contacted by at least one drive element at any position along the path; a plurality of drive elements arranged along the track, said drive elements each comprising a surface that is oriented to contact the driven member of said movers, wherein said drive elements are configured to sequentially engage the driven member of said movers to provide controlled motion of said movers independently around said track, wherein the drive elements are each driven by a rotary motor; and a programmable computer control system in communication with the rotary motors for controlling the motion of the rotary motors, wherein during a portion of the parallel linear portions of said first and second paths, the apparatus is configured so that the movers transporting tooling are driven at a matched tangential velocity with the web substrate resulting in a dwell time zone where the tooling and a localized region of the web substrate are in close proximity, and wherein during the dwell time zone, the apparatus is configured so that the tooling can transform or interface with the web substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15517
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15990852', '13678741', '15005171', '14552255', '15435823']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7248970481803341
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5602342377680964
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7084307671391104
- Mean Citation Score: 280.60920600000003
- Max Citation Score: 529.685
- Similarity Product: 397.0143021067976

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