PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905876
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["404", "084050"]

Abstract:
A material feed system for a paving machine includes a first sensor assembly, a second sensor assembly, and a controller configured to independently operate each of a left material feed mechanism and a right material feed mechanism with respect to one another and, selectively, in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, a speed of each of a left auger, a left conveyor, a right auger, and a right conveyor is automatically adjusted. In the second mode, the speed of at least one of the left auger, the left conveyor, the right auger, and the right conveyor is manually set by an operator input, one of the left material feed mechanism and the right material tied mechanism is operated in the first mode, and the other of the left material feed mechanism and the right material feed mechanism is simultaneously operated in the second mode.

Claim (Index 1):
A material feed system for a paving machine, the paving machine having a hopper for holding a volume of paving material, a left material feed mechanism including a left auger and a left conveyor provided in association with the left auger, a right material feed mechanism including a right auger and a right conveyor provided in association with the right auger, the material feed system comprising:\n a first sensor assembly provided in association with one of the left auger and the left conveyor, the first sensor assembly configured to generate a signal indicative of an amount of paving material in the left material feed mechanism; a second sensor assembly provided in association with one of the right auger and the right conveyor, the second sensor assembly configured to generate a signal indicative of an amount of paving material in the right material feed mechanism; and a controller communicably coupled to each of the first sensor assembly, the left auger, the left conveyor, the second sensor assembly, the right auger, and the right conveyor, the controller configured to: receive, selectively, the signal indicative of the amount of paving material in the left material feed mechanism from the first sensor assembly; receive, selectively, the signal indicative of the amount of paving material in the right material feed mechanism from the second sensor assembly; and operate, independently, each of the left material feed mechanism and the right material feed mechanism with respect to one another and, selectively, in a first mode in which a speed of each of the left auger, the left conveyor, the right auger, and the right conveyor is automatically adjusted in response to the first sensor assembly and the second sensor assembly respectively, and a second mode in which the speed of at least one of the left auger, the left conveyor, the right auger, and the right conveyor is manually set by an operator input with no input to the controller from at least one of the first sensor assembly or the second sensor assembly, wherein one of the left material feed mechanism and the right material feed mechanism is operated in the first mode and the other of the left material feed mechanism and the right material feed mechanism is simultaneously operated in the second mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.13208
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13648952', '15139870', '15899492', '15592498', '14079708']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7296376898192184
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4844470309179472
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7051186239290913
- Mean Citation Score: 230.799224
- Max Citation Score: 243.84787000000003
- Similarity Product: 202.05399942976533

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