PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16175714
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["198", "688100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments provide methods, systems, and apparatuses for loading workpieces in a flow direction into the spaced apart lugs on a lugged conveyor with the workpieces oriented transverse to the flow direction. The lug loader includes an array of pairs of endless conveyors configured to convey workpieces toward a lugged conveyor. The first and second endless conveyors of each pair are spaced laterally apart across the flow direction and aligned substantially in the flow direction. The array can form a continuous or discontinuous transport surface. Some pairs of endless conveyors in the array may overlap one or more other pairs of endless conveyors in the array. At least one pair of endless conveyors in the array may include two or more endless conveyors that are independently driven at different speeds and/or in different directions to de-skew a workpiece.

Claim (Index 10):
A system for transporting successive workpieces in a flow direction, wherein the workpieces are oriented generally transverse to the flow direction, the system comprising:\n a plurality of conveyor modules arranged consecutively in the flow direction to form a continuous workpiece support surface, wherein each of the conveyor modules includes corresponding first and second endless conveyors spaced laterally apart across the flow direction and oriented substantially parallel to the flow direction; and a drive system coupled with the endless conveyors and selectively operable to drive the first and second endless conveyors of each of the conveyor modules independently of one another and independently of the other conveyor modules; a vision camera positioned to detect the successive workpieces on the plurality of conveyor modules; and a computer system coupled with the drive system and the vision camera, the computer system configured to control the drive system based at least on data from the vision camera to thereby adjust skew angles of the successive workpieces and gaps between the successive workpieces while transporting the successive workpieces along the plurality of conveyor modules.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90789
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14635862', '15582567', '14055513', '12068491', '12534777']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7697322276462183
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.514142613985689
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7441732662801653
- Mean Citation Score: 342.5581279999999
- Max Citation Score: 381.54977
- Similarity Product: 354.2043042716706

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