PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15759868
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["209", "145000"]

Abstract:
In order to provide an airflow sorting device having high accuracy and easy adjustment properties with a simple configuration, there are provided a conduit which has a central shaft line and which lets an object to be sorted to fall due to gravity on the inside of the conduit along the central shaft line; an air supply port which is provided at a lower part of the conduit and configured to blow air upward along the central shaft line; a suction port which is provided above the air supply port of the conduit and is an opening oriented downward of a suction pipe provided parallel to the central shaft line; and an input port provided above the suction port of the conduit through which the object to be sorted is input into the periphery of the suction pipe which is in the conduit. Sorting is performed in the sorting device according to whether or not the object to be sorted is being suctioned by the suction port together with a part or the entirety of an airflow generated in the conduit by the air blown from the air supply port, and an airflow adjusting body which is provided below the suction port in the conduit and blocks a falling path of the object to be sorted which falls due to gravity, is provided, and the airflow adjusting body includes: a vertex on the central shaft line; and an inclined surface having a sectional shape, sectional areas of which are similar to each other and increase in size downward, and a drag force which acts on the object to be sorted which falls due to gravity increases downward from the suction port.

Claim (Index 10):
The sorting device according to  claim 9 ,\n wherein each of the flow rates of the suction port and the second suction port is independently controllable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.85437
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13825776', '14638166', '12366938', '13878461', '15661180']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6564495112340404
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887131163906931
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6396758717497056
- Mean Citation Score: 159.14246799999995
- Max Citation Score: 174.67653
- Similarity Product: 113.41477071053448

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