PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140367
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["198", "464200"]

Abstract:
Embodiments provide an electric lug loader system. An electric lug loader may include a shaft assembly rotatably mounted to a frame that extends across a flow path. The shaft assembly may have shafts arranged radially around, and parallel to, the rotational axis of the shaft assembly, clamp members arranged along each of the shafts, support members arranged radially around the rotational axis and across the flow path, and electric drives coupled to the shafts. Conveyors may be coupled with the frame and spaced apart across the flow path upstream and/or downstream of the shaft assembly. Additional drives may be coupled with the shaft assembly and the conveyors. A controller may be configured to synchronize the drives to engage successive workpieces between the clamp members and the support members and deposit the workpieces onto a lugged conveyor. Other embodiments provide related methods and systems.

Claim (Index 13):
A system for handling elongate workpieces translating along a flow path in a first direction and orientated generally transverse to the flow path, the system comprising:\n a conveyor configured to transport the workpieces in the first direction; a shaft assembly positioned across the flow path proximal to the conveyor and rotatable around a generally horizontal rotational axis, the shaft assembly further including a plurality of first shafts arranged radially around the rotational axis, a plurality of clamp members arrayed along the first shafts, and a plurality of support members coupled with the first shafts, the support members arranged radially around the rotational axis and spaced apart along the rotational axis; a drive system coupled with the shaft assembly and operable to rotate each of the first shafts independently in opposite rotary directions to thereby move the corresponding clamp members between a clamping position and a releasing position; and a controller operatively coupled with the drive system and configured to control the drive system to thereby engage successive ones of the workpieces between corresponding ones of the clamp members and the support members while the shaft assembly is rotated around the rotational axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21429
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14297504', '15167618', '15582580', '14055513', '14635862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7091243570598135
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5024515083388491
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.688457072187717
- Mean Citation Score: 279.83142200000003
- Max Citation Score: 339.7596
- Similarity Product: 330.3271144093752

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

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