PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15991805
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["221", "010000"]

Abstract:
A device for ejecting at least one capsule from a capsule holder. The capsule holder has at least two capsule receptacles for, in each case, one capsule. The device comprises: at least two ejectors, each of the ejectors being configured to eject a respective one of the capsules from the corresponding one of the receptacles; a drive unit configured to actuate the at least two ejectors independently of each other in an ejection direction and in an opposite return direction; the drive unit having a pneumatic actuating cylinder for each ejector; the pneumatic actuating cylinders being individually actuatable as a drive for respective ones of the at least two ejectors; a limiter element which is provided jointly for a plurality of the at least two ejectors and which has a cyclical lifting drive; and, each ejector being assigned a stop acting in the return direction for the limiter element.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for ejecting at least one capsule from a capsule holder via a device; wherein the capsule holder has at least two capsule receptacles for, in each case, one capsule; wherein the device includes at least two ejectors, each of the at least two ejectors being configured to eject a respective one of the capsules from the corresponding one of the receptacles, a drive unit configured to actuate said at least two ejectors independently of each other in an ejection direction and in an opposite return direction, the drive unit having a pneumatic actuating cylinder for each ejector; the pneumatic actuating cylinders being individually actuatable as a drive for respective ones of the at least two ejectors; a limiter element which is provided jointly for a plurality of said at least two ejectors and which has a cyclical lifting drive; and,\n each of the ejectors being assigned a stop acting in the return direction for said limiter element, the method comprising the steps of:\n constantly moving the limiter element to and fro via the cyclical lifting drive between a deployed position and a retracted position in the ejection direction and the return direction, respectively; \n in dependence upon whether an individual capsule has been identified as acceptable or unacceptable, deploying the piston rod of the respectively associated actuating cylinder in the ejection direction in such a manner that the associated one of the stops comes to bear on the limiter element and thereby limits the movement of the ejector in the ejection direction; and, \n ejecting the associated capsule from the corresponding capsule receptacle with the ejector as a result of the ejector's movement being limited in the ejection direction by the limiter element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45455
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12305749', '14009356', '13063505', '14638160', '11538827']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7269823495091781
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.465207090166086
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.700804823574869
- Mean Citation Score: 157.545822
- Max Citation Score: 173.32378
- Similarity Product: 144.56796128375532

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