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 42):
The method  claim 40 , wherein computing by the positional measurement device further comprising:\n measuring an angular positions of a retractable cable on both horizontal and vertical axes using a first radial encoder and second radial encoder; measuring an extension and retraction distances of the retractable cable using a third radial encoder; and creating a three dimensional (3D) information of location of free end of the retractable cable by counting or subtracting pulses from the first radial encoder, the second radial encoder and the third radial encoder.

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): 0.4486772075903678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.639249121660201
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4677343989973511
- Mean Citation Score: 451.344354
- Max Citation Score: 736.6468
- Similarity Product: 550.9017490879774

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