PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751649
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["198", "347100"]

Abstract:
A buffering device comprises a frame and a conveyor belt, a supply station, a discharge station, a first reversing member reverses the conveying direction of the conveyor belt, and a return guide includes a second reversing member. The buffering device is configured such that the conveyor belt moves from the supply station via the first reversing member to the discharge station, after which the conveyor belt is guided back to the supply station via the return guide. A portion of the conveyor belt n forms a buffer section of which the length varies. The remaining portion of the conveyor belt forms a compensation section for compensating a change of length of the buffer section during simultaneous displacement of the first and second reversing members with respect to the frame. The first reversing member includes a buffer carriage for radially guiding the conveyor belt, which guide is fixed to the carriage.

Claim (Index 11):
The buffering device according to  claim 1 , wherein the buffering device is further provided with a static first reversing member for reversing the conveying direction of the conveyor belt and a static second reversing member for reversing the direction of the conveyor belt, wherein the static first reversing member and the static second reversing member each have at least two parallel guides which are fixed to the frame for radially guiding the conveyor belt, wherein the buffering device is adapted such that under operating conditions the conveyor belt moves from the supply station via said one guide of the static first reversing member to the displaceable first reversing member and via the first reversing member back to the static first reversing member, where the conveyor belt moves in opposite direction to the discharge station via the other guide, after which the conveyor belt moves from the discharge station via said one guide of the static second reversing member to the displaceable second reversing member and via the second reversing member back to the static second reversing member, where the conveyor belt moves via the other guide in opposite direction to the supply station.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63934
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15256088', '14749216', '11075123', '10469903', '13203553']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7258056819471281
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911829700304844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7023434107554638
- Mean Citation Score: 248.922508
- Max Citation Score: 283.71365
- Similarity Product: 221.4702436294019

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

Dataset: test