PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16296750
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["404", "077000"]

Abstract:
A system for controlling heating of a screed plate includes screed plate disposed along the paving material delivery path. A first temperature sensor is operative to monitor a screed plate temperature and a second temperature sensor along the paving material delivery path is operative to monitor an actual paving material temperature of a paving material being applied to a work surface. A controller is configured to determine an estimated paving material temperature adjacent the screed plate based upon the actual paving material temperature and operate a heater to maintain the screed plate temperature within a temperature variation range relative to the estimated paving material temperature.

Claim (Index 37):
A paving machine comprising:\n a paving material delivery path; a screed assembly disposed along the paving material delivery path and configured for applying paving material to a work surface, the screed assembly including a screed plate; a first temperature sensor associated with the screed plate, the first temperature sensor being configured to generate first temperature signals indicative of a screed plate temperature; a second temperature sensor disposed along the paving material delivery path at a position upstream of the screed plate, the second temperature sensor being configured to generate second temperature signals indicative of an actual paving material temperature of a paving material at the position of the second temperature sensor; a heater operatively associated with the screed plate and configured to heat the screed plate; and a controller configured to:\n access a temperature variation range; \n receive the first temperature signals; \n determine the screed plate temperature based on the first temperature signals; \n receive the second temperature signals; \n determine the actual paving material temperature based on the second temperature signals; \n determine an estimated paving material temperature adjacent the screed plate based on the actual paving material temperature; and \n generate command signals to operate the heater to maintain the screed plate temperature within the temperature variation range relative to the estimated paving material temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29787
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15805739', '14835058', '14835081', '14835041', '14472870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7448918080857184
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5808655169153617
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7284891789686828
- Mean Citation Score: 331.236822
- Max Citation Score: 480.90155
- Similarity Product: 456.4154716493785

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

Dataset: test