PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059282
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["198", "618000"]

Abstract:
Sorting items are loaded into, or unloaded from, a transport volume. A transport volume-side end of a telescopic conveyor is telescoped into the transport volume to reach a suitable loading position. Then the sorting items are transported into the transport volume or unloaded and transported out of the transport volume. The position of the volume-side end of the conveyor is adjusted as a function of the ongoing loading or unloading state. The adjusted position is acquired by way of a control unit. The expected residual loading or unloading time remaining for the transport volume is determined on the basis of the acquired adjusted position and, optionally, the time profile of the process. The adjusted position may be determined from a rotational speed and/or an activation duration of the drive motor that adjusts the telescopic conveyor.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for loading sorting items into a transport volume or for unloading sorting items from the transport volume, the method comprising:\n selectively performing a loading procedure for loading the transport volume or an unloading procedure for unloading the transport volume; in the loading procedure for loading the transport volume: a) telescopically adjusting a transport volume-side end of a telescopic conveyor into the transport volume in order to reach a suitable loading position; b) transporting the sorting items on the telescopic conveyor up to the transport volume-side end thereof; c) unloading the sorting items from the transport volume-side end of the conveyor into the transport volume; d) adapting an adjustment of the transport volume-side end of the telescopic conveyor in dependence on an ongoing loading state in order to adapt the loading position; e) acquiring the adjusted position by way of a control unit; and f) determining an expected residual loading time remaining for the transport volume based on the adjusted position thus acquired and, optionally, a time profile thereof; in the unloading procedure for unloading the transport volume: a) positioning the transport volume-side end of the telescopic conveyor relative to the transport volume in order to reach a suitable unloading position; b) unloading the sorting items onto the transport volume-side end of the telescopic conveyor; c) transporting and discharging the sorting items from the telescopic conveyor at an end thereof opposite the transport volume; d) telescopically adjusting a position of the transport volume-side end of the telescopic conveyor in dependence on the ongoing unloading state in order to adapt the unloading position; e) acquiring the adjusted position by way of the control unit; and f) determining an expected residual unloading time remaining for unloading the transport volume based on the acquired adjusted position and, optionally, a time profile thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1791
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14235991', '15540142', '10430525', '14636325', '15063734']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7170959198609569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4457347649159631
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6899598043664574
- Mean Citation Score: 163.531998
- Max Citation Score: 177.50826999999995
- Similarity Product: 140.58600948203082

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

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