PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884692
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["406", "197000"]

Abstract:
Method for pneumatically conveying granular material from a supply thereof through a conduit to a plurality of receivers for temporary storage of the material prior to molding or extrusion thereof by drawing vacuum in the conduit using a vacuum pump and varying the vacuum pump speed in response to sensed vacuum level in the conduit proximate the pump.

Claim (Index 3):
In a method for pneumatically conveying granular material from a supply thereof through a conduit to a plurality of receivers for temporary storage of the material prior to molding or extrusion thereof by drawing vacuum in the conduit, the improvement comprising:\n a) sensing level of granular material in each receiver and replenishing granular material in that receiver in response to material level falling below a predetermined level; and b) sensing vacuum level in a conduit supplying granular material to the receiver from the supply and when vacuum level in the conduit is too low for effective conveyance of granular material to the receiver, overriding any signal indicative of sensed granular material level in the receiver being below the predetermined level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59459
- Patent Class: 406.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15392650', '14574561', '15066157', '15182934', '14593010']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7445140461182265
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5533129935089895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7253939408573028
- Mean Citation Score: 402.67358
- Max Citation Score: 440.6486
- Similarity Product: 355.37984685114617

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

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