PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16218084
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["221", "265000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an item dispensing device that can reduce the height of each device without decreasing the number of items to be stored. The item dispensing device includes: a storage case for storing capsules; an item ejection port provided in a side wall of the storage case; a vertical rotating shaft attached to the storage case; a motor for driving the rotating shaft to rotate; a circular plate provided in a lower part of the storage case and rotated by the rotating shaft, the circular plate being provided with item holders along the circumferential direction, each of the item holders having an opening in the outer circumferential direction and provided to be engageable with a capsule, wherein a part of the outer circumference of the circular plate is opposed to the item ejection port; and a capsule ejection mechanism for energizing the capsule engaged with one of the item holders toward the item ejection port side when the item holder is positioned at the item ejection port.

Claim (Index 3):
The item dispensing device according to  claim 1 , wherein the energizing mechanism comprises:\n a linear guide provided in the proximity of the item holder of the rotor and arranged outward from the rotating shaft side in the rotor; a slider reciprocably attached to the linear guide; an energizing member for energizing the slider radially outward; a ring-shaped rail which is partially opened in accordance with the item ejection port; a guide rail joined to an opening end on the downstream side of the ring-shaped rail; and a protrusion provided on the slider and adapted to engage with an inner peripheral surface of the ring-shaped rail and an inner side surface of the guide rail, wherein, when the protrusion reaches the opening of the ring-shaped rail with rotation of the rotor, the energizing member is released and the repulsive force of the energizing member causes the slider to be repelled radially outward from an ordinary position closest to a rotation center, and when the protrusion moves along the inner side surface of the guide rail, coming back to the ring-shaped rail, the slider returns to the ordinary position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37333
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16218295', '10796797', '12849580', '11968265', '15050468']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7646827439189109
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5483171792165163
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7430461874486715
- Mean Citation Score: 215.077754
- Max Citation Score: 394.37424
- Similarity Product: 300.58687346254345

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

Dataset: test