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 39):
The self-aligning interface of  claim 36 , wherein the control unit communicates with the extendable conveyor without a physical connection.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18056
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15344183', '15587549', '15351960', '15704976', '14836216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4622088609885372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6814293619515357
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4841309110848371
- Mean Citation Score: 451.344354
- Max Citation Score: 736.6468
- Similarity Product: 667.2691498385428

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