PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911846
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["453", "007000"]

Abstract:
A coin processing apparatus eliminates quickly and surely a coin congestion in the cases where (a) a Tawara state and/or a Keirin phenomenon of coins is/are generated on a conveying surface, (b) additional coins are overlapped or stacked on existing coins having a Tawara state or a Keirin phenomenon, and (c) additional coins are placed on the conveying surface on the upstream side of the existing coins. A conveying belt has a protrusion on its conveying surface. A reversing roller is provided opposite to the conveying surface. Screw-like members with spiral projections on their outer surfaces are respectively provided at two sides of the conveying surface. Coins placed on the conveying surface in their standing state are moved backward due to engagement with the screw-like members to topple down naturally toward the conveying surface during conveyance and then, moved forward due to engagement with the protrusion.

Claim (Index 1):
A coin processing apparatus comprising:\n (a) a coin conveying section for conveying coins, which are put therein through a coin inlet, in a desired attitude after separating the coins from each other; and (b) a coin congestion suppressing section for suppressing a congestion of the coins that is generated during conveyance by the coin conveying section;\n wherein the coin conveying section comprises; \n a conveying belt for conveying coins that are put in the coin conveying section through the coin inlet in a predetermined conveying direction by placing the coins on a conveying surface of the belt, wherein a coin pusher is formed on the conveying surface in such a way as to be engageable with coins that are placed on the conveying surface in their lying state or their approximately lying state, thereby pushing the coins in the conveying direction by the coin pusher; \n a driving means for moving the belt in the conveying direction; and \n a reversing roller disposed at a predetermined position on the conveying surface so as to be opposite to the conveying surface to thereby form an introducing port between the reversing roller and the conveying surface; wherein the introducing port serves to allow coins that are placed on the conveying surface in a desired state to selectively pass through the port, and the reversing roller is rotated to move coins that are placed on the conveying surface toward an opposite side to the introducing port when the coins are contacted with the reversing roller; \n and wherein the coin congestion suppressing section comprises one or more coin moving members for moving coins placed on the conveying surface toward the opposite side to the introducing port by engaging the coins with the one or more coin moving members, the one or more coin moving members being disposed on at least one side of the belt; and \n if coins that are placed on the conveying surface in their standing state or their approximately standing state are engaged with the one or more coin moving members, the coins are moved by the one or more coin moving members toward the opposite side to the introducing port so as to topple down toward the conveying surface during movement.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02532
- Patent Class: 453.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11535346', '10885009', '11960000', '11321410', '14603168']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6048511600409217
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4559744536004678
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5899634893968764
- Mean Citation Score: 233.578328
- Max Citation Score: 240.96777000000003
- Similarity Product: 209.9585171242869

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

Dataset: test