PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15761932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["198", "810020"]

Abstract:
A conveyor belt ( 8 ) and method for monitoring a moving conveyor belt ( 8 ), the conveyor belt ( 8 ) having a first edge region ( 2 ), a second edge region ( 4 ), and a load carrying region ( 6 ). The method functions to detect belt edge damage, changes in belt width, and changes in belt tracking by monitoring a magnetic field associated with a plurality of edge detection inserts ( 1,3 ) embedded within the conveyor belt ( 8 ). In one embodiment this is achieved by monitoring images of the magnetic field associated with the edge detection inserts ( 1,3 ) embedded within the conveyor belt ( 8 ). The method may utilize a magnetic sensor system to detect magnetic images of the edge detection inserts ( 1,3 ) where the edge detection inserts ( 1,3 ) are positioned longitudinally along the length of the conveyor belt ( 8 ) in the first edge region ( 2 ) and the second edge region ( 4 ) of the conveyor belt ( 8 ).

Claim (Index 12):
The method for monitoring a moving conveyor belt as specified in  claim 11 , wherein the conveyor belt includes steel reinforcements and belt splices, and wherein the conveyor belt is monitored for reinforcement damage and splice damage by monitoring images of the magnetic fields associated with the steel reinforcements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01587
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14844741', '12620074', '14547396', '15135193', '12864173']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7622029198535811
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4694927684397177
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7329319047121948
- Mean Citation Score: 226.17994
- Max Citation Score: 254.52917
- Similarity Product: 212.2210407373285

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