PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042500
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["194", "351000"]

Abstract:
A dispenser shutter assembly for an automated teller machine and an associated method of preventing damage to a shutter operating mechanism of the dispenser shutter assembly. The dispenser shutter assembly includes: a shutter plate; and a shutter operating mechanism that includes a motor assembly including a drive shaft mounting a worm gear and attached to a frame member by a pivotable mounting. The worm gear is moveable out of engagement with the worm segment by pivoting the motor assembly away from the frame member about the pivotable mounting. When the shutter plate is subject to an external force for moving the shutter plate to open a shutter from a closed position, the external force thereby applied to the worm gear by the worm segment moves the worm gear about the pivotable mounting out of engagement with the worm segment thereby preventing damage to the shutter operating mechanism.

Claim (Index 1):
A dispenser shutter assembly of an automated teller machine (ATM), said dispenser shutter assembly comprising:\n a shutter operating mechanism comprising a motor assembly and a shutter plate comprising a motor comprising a drive shaft mounting a worm gear, said motor assembly attached to a frame member, said shutter plate moveable relative to the frame member and comprising a worm segment, said worm segment engageable with the worm gear so that, upon the worm segment being engaged with the worm gear and the worm gear being rotated by the motor, the worm segment and shutter plate are moveable between a closed position of the shutter and an open position of the shutter by sufficient rotation of the worm gear; said attachment means comprising a pivotable mounting to the frame member so that the worm gear is moveable out of engagement with the worm segment by pivoting of the motor assembly away from the frame member about the pivotable mounting, so that when the shutter plate is subject to an external force for moving the shutter plate from a first position corresponding to a closed position of the shutter towards a second position corresponding to an open position of the shutter, the external force thereby applied to the worm gear by the worm segment, when above a threshold force value which is lower than a force value determined to cause damage to the mechanism, moves the worm gear of the motor assembly about the pivotable mounting out of engagement with the worm segment thereby preventing damage to the shutter operating mechanism.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52459
- Patent Class: 194.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15723331', '15623868', '15475333', '14461768', '11544219']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5628527049351449
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5935287490626224
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5659203093478927
- Mean Citation Score: 270.918014
- Max Citation Score: 481.5469
- Similarity Product: 462.5805913110077

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

Dataset: test