PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16145843
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "502100"]

Abstract:
An improved system for monitoring drive members in a belt-driven application during installation and during operation and for detecting common failure modes in belt-driven equipment is disclosed. Sensors are positioned within or proximate the motor housing to detect vibrations on the belt or in the electric machine. The vibration signals are used to monitor operating conditions and/or to identify the failure modes in belt-driven equipment. The vibration signals may be used, for example, to determine tension on a belt, detect either a static or dynamic force applied along the belt, a misalignment between a pulley and the belt, or a shock load applied to the belt during operation. By monitoring the various operating conditions of the belt-driven equipment, a controller may identify an existing failure mode or predict a premature failure mode.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for monitoring operation of drive members in a belt-driven system, comprising:\n at least one sensor configured to generate a signal corresponding to a vibration present on a belt in the belt-driven system, wherein a motor is connected to and is operative to drive the belt; and a motor controller configured to control operation of the motor, the motor controller including: an input configured to receive the signal corresponding to the vibration present on the belt from the at least one sensor; a memory device operative to store a plurality of configuration parameters and a plurality of instructions; and a processor configured to execute the plurality of instructions to:\n receive the signal from the at least one sensor corresponding to the vibration present on the belt, and \n determine a tension present on the belt as a function of the signal corresponding to the vibration present on the motor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93243
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11924438', '15451052', '13614637', '12828650', '11101597']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7350012903330302
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4523987967107358
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7067410409708007
- Mean Citation Score: 179.85155000000003
- Max Citation Score: 184.76682
- Similarity Product: 140.29234393172263

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

Dataset: test