PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756535
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["209", "606000"]

Abstract:
Technology is described for an electromagnetic apparatus and system that sorts different electrically conductive metals. In one example, an electrodynamic sorting circuit includes a wire-wound, gapped, core (WWGC) and a capacitor bank. The WWGC includes a magnetic core including a gap, and an electrical conductor coiled around the magnetic core. A current in the electrical conductor is configured to generate a magnetic field in the magnetic core and the gap. The capacitor bank is coupled in series with the electrical conductor of the WWGC. Various other circuitries, systems, devices, components, and methods are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 14):
An eddy current sorter, comprising:\n a wire-wound, gapped, core (WWGC) including a magnetic core having a gap and a winding of electrical conductor wound around the magnetic core, the gap for receiving material including a non-ferrous metal; a variable frequency drive for generating a variable frequency voltage; a tunable capacitor array electrically coupled in series between the winding and the variable frequency drive; and an electrical circuit including the variable frequency drive, the tunable capacitor array, and the winding, the electrical circuit for producing a varying magnetic field with a frequency to deflect the non-ferrous metal from the material, wherein the resonant frequency is selected and the tunable capacitor array is tuned for significant sorting of materials based on an electrical conductivity, mass density, and particle geometry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7619
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11486318', '11646357', '10349526', '14670081', '10073866']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7180999536183452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4730748496815717
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6935974432246679
- Mean Citation Score: 174.774022
- Max Citation Score: 179.65497
- Similarity Product: 128.55181492851554

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