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 15):
A conveyor system comprising:\n a first conveyor conveying electrically conductive articles in a first direction to an exit end; a second conveyor conveying the electrically conductive articles from an entrance end in a second direction, wherein the angle \u03b8 between the first direction and the second direction is given by 0\u00b0<\u03b8\u226490\u00b0; a diverter forming a junction between the exit end of the first conveyor and the entrance end of the second conveyor; wherein the diverter includes:\n a top surface; \n an entrance adjacent to the exit end of the first conveyor receiving the electrically conductive articles on the top surface from the exit end of the first conveyor; \n an exit adjacent to the entrance end of the second conveyor; \n a plurality of coils arranged in parallel below the top surface and having magnetic axes in a third direction oblique to the first direction and producing an electromagnetic flux wave that forces the electrically conductive articles on the top surface above the coils to move in the third direction, wherein the angle a between the first direction and the third direction is given by 0\u00b0<\u03b1<\u03b8; \n wherein the electrically conductive articles are directed from the entrance to the exit by the coils and onto the second conveyor.

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): 0.7339284130361089
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4589369741436191
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7064292691468599
- Mean Citation Score: 218.215568
- Max Citation Score: 229.27585
- Similarity Product: 189.4621199444473

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

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