PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976074
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["404", "075000"]

Abstract:
A paving system includes a paving machine, a controller, and a control panel. The paving machine includes a machine frame, a drive assembly, and a paving material delivery assembly, which includes a hopper, a conveyor assembly, an auger, and a screed. The paving machine also includes an emulsion fluid delivery assembly, including a tank of emulsion fluid and a spray bar including a plurality of nozzles. The controller is wired or wirelessly coupled to the tank and the spray bar to control at least one of a temperature, pressure, or delivery rate of the emulsion fluid through the nozzles.

Claim (Index 16):
An emulsion fluid delivery and control system for a paving machine, comprising\n a tank of emulsion fluid, including at least one pump and one or more heaters; a spray bar fluidly connected to the tank and including a plurality of nozzles, wherein the nozzles are coupled to a nozzle controller and include a pneumatically controlled valve; a controller, wherein the controller is wired or wirelessly coupled to the tank to control at least one of a temperature, pressure, or delivery rate of the emulsion fluid to the spray bar, and wherein the controller is wired or wirelessly coupled to the plurality of nozzles to control the activation and deactivation of each nozzle; and a control panel that is connected to the controller and includes a plurality of nozzle indicators, wherein each nozzle indicator is coupled to a respective nozzle, wherein the control panel includes one or more nozzle controls, wherein the nozzle controls are coupled to sets of nozzles, and wherein the nozzle controls are operable to activate or deactivate the delivery of emulsion fluid through the sets of nozzles, and wherein each nozzle indicator is operable to activate or deactivate the delivery of emulsion fluid through each respective nozzle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15975923', '15976509', '11193606', '15496714', '11689388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7248124317572865
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5097992282856334
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7033111114101211
- Mean Citation Score: 234.439112
- Max Citation Score: 313.40445
- Similarity Product: 263.32938884648684

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