PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16410138
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["340", "010420"]

Abstract:
A bale identification assembly has a binding material with identification tags at spaced intervals is used by a knotter system to bind a formed bale. A read module with an antenna transmits interrogator signals and also receives authentication replies from identification tags. The bale identification assembly has a bale drop sensor with a paddle. As a completed bale passes through the discharge chute, the completed bale interacts with the paddle causing the bale drop sensor to activate. Activation of the bale drop sensor activates the antenna for a specified active cycle, and during its active cycle, the read module assigns any identification tag that is sensed to the completed bale that is leaving the discharge chute. A controller receives information from at least one crop sensor and/or bale sensor and associates the information about the completed bale with the identification tag on the completed bale.

Claim (Index 1):
A bale identification assembly for use with an agricultural baler used to take loose crop material from the ground into bales and compress a formed bale in a baling chamber with a reciprocating plunger, the baler having at least one crop sensor and/or bale sensor configured to sense a parameter of the crop material or formed bale, and a discharge chute at the rear end of the bale-forming chamber through which a completed bale is discharged, the bale identification assembly comprising:\n a knotter system that guides binding material around a formed bale and ties a knot in the binding material to bind the formed bale, the knotter system comprising at least on supply roll used to provide binding material used to bind the formed bale wherein the binding material on the one supply roll has identification tags at spaced intervals; a read module with an antenna configured to transmit interrogator signals and also receives authentication replies from identification tags; a bale drop sensor comprising a bale activation device, wherein as a completed bale passes through the discharge chute, the completed bale interacts with the bale activation device causing the antenna to activate for a specified active cycle, and wherein during its active cycle, the read module assigns any identification tag that is sensed by the read module to the completed bale that is leaving the discharge chute; and a controller configured to receive information from the at least one crop sensor and/or bale sensor and associate the information about the completed bale with the identification tag on the completed bale that is leaving the discharge chute.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08108
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15911335', '15911372', '16014959', '14116238', '15208010']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7375784446051812
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5659493778234254
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7204155379270056
- Mean Citation Score: 353.713908
- Max Citation Score: 427.47256
- Similarity Product: 421.3324952566052

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