PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953127
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["198", "370130"]

Abstract:
A conveyor system for conveying electrically conductive articles such as aluminum cans. The conveyor system comprises a plurality of coils below the top surface of an electromagnetic conveyor at a junction between an infeed conveyor and a discharge conveyor. The coils propagate electromagnetic flux waves that induce currents in the electrically conductive articles that force the articles to follow a conveying path from the infeed to the discharge conveyor. Dead spots on the electromagnetic conveyor can be eliminated by adjusting the coil drive waveforms.

Claim (Index 28):
A conveyor system comprising:\n an electromagnetic conveyor including:\n a top surface; \n an entrance over which electrically conductive articles are transferred onto the top surface; \n an exit over which electrically conductive articles are transferred off the top surface; \n a plurality of coils arranged below the top surface in an array and producing electromagnetic flux waves causing forces that move the electrically conductive articles across the top surface from the entrance to the exit; \n a controller driving the coils with drive waveforms characterized by a first amplitude and periodic pulses of a greater second amplitude that periodically increase the forces acting on the electrically conductive articles in low-force regions on the top surface to enhance movement of the electrically conductive articles from low-force regions on the top surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62963
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15519963', '12405834', '15518443', '14338907', '12633294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7342064248542929
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.457438142207268
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7065295965895905
- Mean Citation Score: 218.215568
- Max Citation Score: 229.27585
- Similarity Product: 192.5851620182216

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

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