PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16253859
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["406", "012000"]

Abstract:
A conveyor system ( 10 ) for transporting a transportable material (M) by means of a fluid for transporting the transportable material (M) between a first conveying line portion ( 11 ) and a second conveying line portion ( 12 ), said conveying line portions ( 11, 12 ) comprising a plurality of pipes forming a continuous conveying line ( 13 ), said system ( 10 ) comprising: a conveyor device ( 1 ) in fluid connection to one of said first or said conveying line portions ( 11, 12 ) operative to provide negative air pressure or vacuum through said conveying line ( 13 ); a material feeder device ( 2 ); wherein the conveyor device ( 1 ) comprises at least one material level sensor ( 1 a,  1 b ), wherein the at least one material level sensor ( 1 a,  1 b ) is used to monitor one or more material level(s) inside the conveyor device ( 1 ) and via one or more material level sensor lines ( 3 ) giving at least one material level signal ( 1 aa,  1 bb ) to a controller ( 4 ) and from the controller ( 4 ) via a control signal line ( 5 ) transmit a control signal ( 5 a ) to the material feeder device ( 2 ) having a valve ( 6 ) adapted to control the amount of air injected into the system, typically the into the conveying line ( 13 ), wherein the controller ( 4 ) is adapted to control the valve ( 6 ) and/or a mass-flow (M), respectively, of the material feeder device ( 2 ) in dependence of output from the at least one material level sensor ( 1 a,  1 b ) to control amount of air injected into the conveying line ( 13 ) at the feeder device ( 2 ).

Claim (Index 9):
The conveyor system according to  claim 8 , wherein an algorithm executed by the controller comprises a calibration phase and an optimization phase, wherein in the calibration phase, the controller by means of the algorithm is arranged to determine a system condition and start looking for the valve's position, where material starts to enter the conveying line, once the calibration phase is finished the algorithm goes into an optimization phase, wherein the optimization phase in turn consists of a change cycle and an evaluation cycle, and wherein in the change cycle a new position for the valve is set which is then evaluated in the evaluation cycle, wherein the optimization phase has no end state and continuously changes the valve around an optimum position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.68817
- Patent Class: 406.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13878498', '15169839', '15115543', '12838014', '11330841']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6964508099305124
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4964697398826825
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6764527029257295
- Mean Citation Score: 175.489772
- Max Citation Score: 179.57732
- Similarity Product: 109.0763880675745

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

Dataset: test