PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758158
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["209", "552000"]

Abstract:
The present invention has an object to provide a blowing apparatus wherein a piezoelectric element is unlikely to cause insulation deterioration leading to burnout during use of the blowing apparatus. The blowing apparatus of the present invention blows compressed gas supplied from a compressed gas supply unit through a nozzle hole of a nozzle unit by opening a piezoelectric valve. The blowing apparatus comprises a humidity sensor detecting a humidity of the compressed gas inside a flow path unit, and a humidity control unit comparing a detected value of the humidity detected by the humidity sensor with a set value. If the humidity of the compressed gas inside the flow path unit detected by the humidity sensor is equal to or greater than the set value, the humidity control unit replaces the compressed gas inside the flow path unit with the compressed gas whose humidity is less than the set value and which is supplied from the compressed gas supply unit, before starting to use the blowing apparatus.

Claim (Index 5):
An optical granular material sorting machine comprising:\n a transfer unit of transferring objects to be sorted; an optical detection unit of detecting objects to be sorted falling from an end portion of the transfer unit at a detection position; and a blowing apparatus disposed further below the optical detection unit and blowing the objects to be sorted by blowing compressed gas based on a detection result by the optical detection unit, wherein the blowing apparatus is the blowing apparatus according to  claim 1 , and if the humidity of the compressed gas inside the flow path unit detected by the humidity sensor is equal to or greater than the set value, the compressed gas inside the flow path unit is replaced with the compressed gas whose humidity is less than the set value and which is supplied from the compressed gas supply unit, before starting to use the blowing apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69231
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14364673', '13107332', '14395475', '10822126', '15112544']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6535323512018454
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5119601357749142
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6393751296591522
- Mean Citation Score: 224.702398
- Max Citation Score: 289.0318
- Similarity Product: 188.49819704227448

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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