PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174882
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["452", "156000"]

Abstract:
A system for processing a suspended beef carcass as the carcass is moved along a defined path. A robotic arm is carried on a moveable table and has mounted thereon a servo motor-driven band saw capable of effecting a splitting operation on the beef carcass. The band saw is counterbalanced by a mass having a weight less than the weight of the band saw, and the robotic arm has a maximum load-carrying capacity less than the weight of the band saw. A torque monitor for the servo motor detects breaks in the band saw or breaks in the support for the band saw. A vision-based sensor system detects location of a tail bone on the beef carcass and identifies an age-indicating indicia. The system includes a controller in communication with the carcass rail, the carcass processing device and motor, and the vision-based sensor system.

Claim (Index 6):
A method of processing a suspended animal carcass as the carcass is moved along a defined path comprising:\n providing a carcass rail having a plurality of carcass trolleys spaced at desired intervals and movable along the carcass rail in a first direction, each carcass trolley capable of supporting an animal carcass; providing an animal carcass supported by a carcass trolley on the carcass rail; providing a saw rail having a saw trolley capable of supporting a carcass saw, the saw trolley being moveable along the saw rail in a second direction normal to the first direction; providing a carcass saw supported by the saw trolley, the saw being counterbalanced on the saw trolley by a mass having a weight less than the weight of the saw to permit movement of the saw by a force less than the weight of the saw; providing a robot-based carcass processing device having a robotic arm attached to the saw, the robot-based carcass processing device being disposed adjacent the carcass rail, the robotic arm having a maximum load-carrying capacity less than the weight of the saw; using the robotic arm of the robot-based carcass processing device, initially positioning the counterbalanced saw on the saw trolley at a first position away from the carcass rail; moving the supported carcass on the carcass rail in the first direction to a position adjacent the robot-based carcass processing device; using the robotic arm of the robot-based carcass processing device, moving the counterbalanced saw on the saw trolley along the saw rail in the second direction toward the carcass rail to a second position adjacent the supported carcass on the carcass rail; using the robotic arm of the robot-based carcass processing device, moving the counterbalanced saw in a direction to cut the supported carcass as it moves along the carcass rail; and using the robotic arm of the robot-based carcass processing device, moving the counterbalanced saw in the second direction away from the carcass rail to return the saw to the first position, wherein the load on the robotic arm does not exceed the weight of the saw during all movement of the saw.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 119.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18571
- Patent Class: 452.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15886323', '15663097', '14719862', '14412005', '10945760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.663119753026649
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6346185896576196
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6602696366897461
- Mean Citation Score: 421.024316
- Max Citation Score: 616.33984
- Similarity Product: 605.7801645276643

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