PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864495
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["104", "094000"]

Abstract:
A bidirectional overhead urban transport (TUEP) for a large transportation capacity, which is suspended over a series of poles, without interfering with the traffic of vehicles and pedestrians surface, which is characterized by having a continuum of autonomous cabins circulating about a tubular track suspended by static wires hanging from the poles. The system has overhead stations for passengers, by which access is given to the suspended cabins, moved by autonomous and independent electric motors which rotate a drive pulley rolling on the upper back of a horizontal tubular track raised or inclined according to the topography of the ground. The peculiarity of this transport system is that each of the cabins that are only for two passengers, travels directly to a destination station, where is diverted from the main flow to a station, so it is not necessary to stop the main flow of cabins, which results in the although circulating at low to moderate speed, the time required to travel is reduced.

Claim (Index 1):
An overhead passenger transport system, of the type consisting of a plurality of autonomous passenger cabs carried on tubes, characterized in that it comprises:\n an infrastructure composed of two horizontal or inclined parallel tubes forming part of a composite tubular structure with a triangular cross section, with a third upper tube also parallel, by means of perpendicular inclined uprights and diagonal bridges to give it a greater rigidity; said composite structure is supported in an elevated form from the floor by posts at predetermined distances according to the particular conditions of the installation terrain and to the height requirements that are required to overcome obstacles in the cities; alternatively there is another embodiment composed of two horizontal or inclined parallel tubes which are supported by posts placed at predetermined distances; the posts are topped by a triangular structure, which supports in its lateral vertices, static steel cables for the two directions of travel, of the transport system; of each of the posts lower hanging hooks of varying length holding both main tubular tracks on which a plurality of autonomous passenger cabs circulate; the main tubular track is supported by the hanging hooks at the bottom so that the opposite side of the track is free for the circulation of the cabs; preferable there is an additional mod,e consisting of two tubes of square section with a top plate in the form of a \u201cT\u201d, inner diaphragms and post-tensioned steel cables; diverting elements forming part of the main tubular tracks are horizontally flexible and intended to divert the track towards the stations and the stations towards the main track; which are operated by electric or hydraulic or pneumatic actuators, at the request of the control system; preferable the cabin deflecting mechanism or diverter formed by rigid tubes, one straight and the other curved, equally operated by electric or hydraulic or pneumatic actuators, by means of which the curved tube displaces the straight tube to achieve the purpose of deflecting the booths in the stations; the system further comprises:\n i. terminal and intermediate passenger stations, which are intended to provide the means by which users can access the elevated transport system, these stations are equipped with ladders and elevators; \n ii. passenger cabins of two or three seats, which are autonomous in terms of their means of traction and control; the cabins are equipped with rotating front seats and doors or a front liftgate; a structural pendant that connects them from a metal frame of the reinforcement of the cabins with the case of the tractor pulley or wheels, that move on top and below of the tubular tracks of the infrastructure; tractor pulleys or wheels that are coupled to the electric motors either directly or by speed reducers, which take power supply by trolleys that come in contact with electric brushes with bare wires running on hanging electrical insulators at the bottom of the track tubes, or by batteries; \n iii. preferable the above cabs may have two seats, one anterior and one rear, with a single side door receptacle, which has the particularity of containing its own energy source using ultracapacitor modules, which teed the energy to two motors that go directly coupled to two tractor wheels that make contact with the raised track, the source of energy storage being recharged at determined distances by means of electric brushes that make contact only with electric bars installed in each passenger station, \n iv. a power supply system by means of electrical substations, suitably distributed over the transport line, for powering bare cables for the trolleys of the autonomous electric motors of the cabins; \n v. a control and automation system for booths containing servo motor controllers, a programmable logic controller (PLC), a remote terminal unit (RTU), sensors and control buttons, which by means of wired and wireless signals and radio frequencies establish communication with the PLC of the passenger stations and these at the same time with the PLC of the master control system, according to the programming; \n vi. a system of sensors in the tubular track and in each cabin, that allows to detect the programmed temporary destination of the same, so that from the PLC of each station the signal of operation is sent to the electric actuators of the track deflectors or diverters, in order to bring that particular cabin to a station and vice versa by a second deflectors or diverters, from the station again to the main tubular track; \n vii. a master control system, powered by a data acquisition system type SCADA, which allows to know at all times and in real time the relative position of each cabin in relation to the complete system, to allow the correction of distances between cabs, and stops. accelerations and decelerations of the engines, both in the main tubular track and in the stations

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7549
- Patent Class: 104.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14897960', '15110474', '14785803', '11099284', '15199783']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7359305947206741
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5644574051347785
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7187832757620846
- Mean Citation Score: 265.360498
- Max Citation Score: 550.5498
- Similarity Product: 417.5041000176788

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

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