PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["700", "218000"]

Abstract:
A self-aligning interface ( 6300 ) is attached to a robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ) and provides an interface between an extendable conveyor ( 6200 ) and the robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ). The self-aligning interface ( 6300 ) can include a positional measurement device ( 6320, 6320 b,  6320 c ) mounted on the robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ) and operatively engaged with the extendable conveyor ( 6200 ) to provide positional information about the location of the extendable nose conveyor ( 6220 ) relative to the positional measurement device ( 6320, 6320 b,  6320 c ). A control unit ( 6180 ) is attached to the robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ) for full robotic control of robotic carton unloader ( 6100 ) and the unloading process. The control unit ( 6180 ) is connected to the positional measurement device ( 6320, 6320 b,  6320 c ) and the extendable conveyor ( 6200 ). The control unit ( 6180 ) uses positional information to calculate and control extension and retraction movements of the extendable conveyor ( 6200 ) in unison with the forward and reverse movements of the robotic carton unloader  6100  to ensure unloaded cartons ( 12 ) exiting the moving truck unloader are received on the extendable conveyor ( 6200 ).

Claim (Index 31):
An interface for interfacing an unloader conveyor mounted on a robotic carton unloader to an extendable conveyor, the extendable conveyor configured to receive cartons being unloaded by the robotic carton unloader, the interface comprising:\n positional measurement device mounted on the robotic carton unloader and operatively engagable with the extendable conveyor to provide angular and distance positional information about the extendable conveyor relative to the positional measurement device; a carton alignment interface comprising rear guides attached to the robotic carton unloader, the rear guides configured to guide unloaded cartons exiting the unloader conveyor onto the extendable conveyor; and a control unit including a processor operatively attached to the robotic carton unloader and to the positional measurement device and communicably connected to the extendable conveyor to calculate and coordinate movements of the extendable conveyor relative to movements of the robotic carton unloader to ensure that the extendable conveyor is always in a position to receive the flow of the unloaded cartons off of the unloader conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18056
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15344183', '15587549', '15351960', '15704976', '14836216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.434692362736453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6748023192183598
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4587033583846437
- Mean Citation Score: 451.344354
- Max Citation Score: 736.6468
- Similarity Product: 653.5103173480272

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