PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16077599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["198", "370040"]

Abstract:
A conveyor apparatus that conveys articles supported by a plurality of arranged article supports. The conveyor apparatus including infilling members, being disposed between the article supports. In one embodiment, an infill plate serving as the infilling member is urged to a tray by springs, so that the infill plate is kept in contact with the tray.

Claim (Index 1):
A conveyor apparatus for conveying articles, comprising:\n a plurality of traveling units that travel in series along a conveying path for the articles; a plurality of article supports that have article support surfaces for supporting the articles and that are caused to travel on the conveying path by the respective traveling units; and infilling members provided for the respective article supports, each infilling member filling a clearance between the article supports longitudinally adjacent to each other in the conveying path, the infilling member being urged to the corresponding article support so as to be kept in contact with the article support.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44186
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16077629', '16077517', '13210482', '13196598', '12723513']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7133252523897616
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4972395776358911
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6917166849143745
- Mean Citation Score: 211.20029
- Max Citation Score: 334.44165
- Similarity Product: 289.965071391508

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