PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["172", "002000"]

Abstract:
A disc opener unit for an agricultural implement has a down pressure adjustment device that automatically adjusts the amount of down pressure applied on a furrowing disc based on strain measurements taken by a strain gauge or load cell. The strain gauge, which may be mounted to an arm that is used to set the position of a depth setting gauge wheel, provides feedback to a processor that in turn controls the amount of hydraulic fluid in a hydraulic cylinder to adjust the down force applied on the disc. The amount of down pressure is therefore adjusted in substantially real-time in response to changes in field conditions, which improves furrow depth consistency and reduces wear on the gauge wheel and its components.

Claim (Index 21):
The implement of  claim 20 , wherein the controller is configured to control the operation of the cylinder such that the monitored load is maintained within a given range of load values associated with maintaining the actual down pressure equal or substantially equal to the desired down pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70667
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12820720', '12820759', '14571603', '13605210', '12621959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7847113197880146
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5332226950215175
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.759562457311365
- Mean Citation Score: 327.857366
- Max Citation Score: 407.91092
- Similarity Product: 242.4078085486269

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

Dataset: test