PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975926
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["417", "416000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for operating a linear motor (e.g., for an ESP), where the motor's mover moves in a reciprocating motion within a bore of the stator. Hard stops are located at the ends of the bore. The motor has a first set of sensors in the stator positioned proximate to the bore. When the mover moves in the bore, the sensors produce corresponding output signals, except when the mover is in a position near, but not in contact with a hard stop. While the sensors produce output signals, the motor is driven in a first direction toward the hard stop. When the sensors stop producing the output signals, the mover has reached the first position, and the motor is controlled to reverse the direction of the mover.

Claim (Index 3):
An apparatus comprising:\n a linear motor having a stator and a mover, wherein the mover is positioned within a bore of the stator, wherein the mover moves in a reciprocating motion within the bore between a first end of a stroke and a second end of the stroke, wherein a first hard stop prevents the mover from moving past the first end of the stroke and a second hard stop prevents the mover from moving past the second end of the stroke; and a first set of sensors in the stator positioned proximate to the bore, wherein when the mover moves in the bore, the first set of sensors produce corresponding output signals except when the mover is in a position proximate to but not in contact with one of the hard stops; wherein the first set of sensors produce corresponding output signals except when the mover is in either a first position proximate to but not in contact with the second hard stop, or a second position proximate to but not in contact with the first hard stop.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23077
- Patent Class: 417.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15212213', '15294105', '15137115', '15145395', '15075195']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8041720348163672
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5441932967243895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7781741610071695
- Mean Citation Score: 306.768824
- Max Citation Score: 400.6218
- Similarity Product: 382.21392257437714

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

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