PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["172", "021000"]

Abstract:
A soil penetrating apparatus having an automatic tool (e.g., aerator tine) depth control system and method. The system includes an actuator that sets and controls tine depth, a sensor that monitors tine depth, and a controller that controls the actuator in response to the sensor. In some embodiments, the actuator is a hydraulic actuator, wherein once tine depth is set, flow to the actuator is bypassed. A relief may be provided to allow the tines to lift to a shallower depth temporarily when soil hardness exceeds a threshold. The system may then automatically return the tines to the pre-selected depth once soil conditions permit.

Claim (Index 9):
The aerator of  claim 6 , wherein the controller intermittently attempts to return the coring head assembly to the desired soil penetration depth in accordance with a predefined duty cycle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85714
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11474651', '11975277', '13435170', '12348286', '12713755']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7803433181929149
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5410432363757813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7564133100112016
- Mean Citation Score: 293.542686
- Max Citation Score: 313.3399
- Similarity Product: 182.8408253319264

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

Dataset: test