PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026190
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["119", "014030"]

Abstract:
An implement for automatically milking a dairy animal, such as a cow, comprises a milking parlour, a sensor for observing a teat, and a milking robot for automatically attaching a teat cup to the teat. The milking robot comprises a robot control that is connected to the sensor. The sensor comprises a radiation source for emitting light, a receiver for receiving electromagnetic radiation reflected from the dairy animal, a lens, and sensor control unit. The sensor comprises a matrix with a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of receivers. The sensor control unit is designed to determine for each of the receivers a phase difference between the emitted and the reflected electromagnetic radiation in order to calculate the distance from the sensor to a plurality of points on the part to be observed of the dairy animal.

Claim (Index 1):
An implement for automatically milking a dairy animal, comprising:\n a milking parlour; a sensor for observing a teat of the dairy animal; and a milking robot for automatically attaching a teat cup to the teat, the milking robot comprising a robot control unit with a central processing unit, operatively connected to the sensor, and the milking robot further comprising cleaning brushes or cleaning rolls wherein the sensor comprises: a radiation source for emitting electromagnetic radiation; a receiver for receiving electromagnetic radiation reflected from the dairy animal; a lens for imaging the reflected electromagnetic radiation onto the receiver; a sensor control unit; and wherein the receiver comprises a matrix with a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of receivers; wherein the sensor control unit is operatively connected to the radiation source to modulate the electromagnetic radiation; wherein the sensor control unit determines for each of the receivers a phase difference between the emitted and the reflected electromagnetic radiation to calculate distances from the sensor to a plurality of points on the dairy animal,, wherein the robot control unit controls cleaning brushes or cleaning rolls for cleaning the teat of the dairy animal on the basis of the calculated distances from the sensor to a plurality of points on the teat of the dairy animal and/or on the basis of calculated distances from the sensor to a plurality of points on the cleaning brushes or cleaning rolls.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 58.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39683
- Patent Class: 119.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14327583', '12439824', '12440020', '12900524', '14004697']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7999641454818726
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5764953271079771
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.777617263644483
- Mean Citation Score: 402.653492
- Max Citation Score: 491.2038
- Similarity Product: 431.5904558298111

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

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