PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16188992
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["198", "444000"]

Abstract:
A typing off-loading and article sorting system to automatically separate different parcel types includes an feed conveyor, receiving conveyor, sorting conveyor, cameras and photoelectric eye. The overhead cameras detect the item size and whether it is cubic in nature and type and size of its footprint. An in-line slide sorter having alternating conveyor rollers and pop-up belts pass through to, or divert articles from, a downstream conveyor. The vison based system may also be used to detect space between articles and insert articles in the unoccupied space.

Claim (Index 22):
A typing and article sorting system, comprising:\n an off-loading collector feed conveyor having an independent drive motor in flow communication with a transport loaded with articles; a transition zone selected on said off-loading collector feed conveyor; at least one camera having a field of view of said transition zone; controller means for maintaining an off-loading collector feed conveyor speed to achieve a desired conveyor area utilization on a down stream receiving conveyor according to the formula V 2 =V 1 \u00d72\u00d7(DO %)/(RCO %+FCO %) where V is velocity (conveyor speed), DO is Desired Occupancy, RCO is Receiving Conveyor Occupancy, and FCO is Feeding Conveyor Occupancy wherein occupancy comprises conveyor area, conveyor volume, or conveyor density); a conveyor speed control system, comprising a first conveyor positioned to carry articles in the direction of a longitudinal axis of said conveyor, a second conveyor positioned across said longitudinal axis of said first conveyor including means operative to move said second conveyor between a home position in which said pass-through element receives said articles from said second conveyor and transfers them along the direction of said longitudinal axis, and a diverting position in which said second conveyor receives said articles from said first conveyor and transfers them away from the direction of said longitudinal axis, a multiplexed light screen to detect the full length of said articles, a photocell over a first conveyor surface to detect portions of said articles that can be engaged by said second conveyor, and a computer control means for controlling actuation of said second conveyor in response to data transmitted from said multiplexed light screen and said photocell; wherein said articles can be diverted upon decreasing the speed of the first conveyor prior to diverting said articles with said second conveyor and said articles are moving forward as said second conveyor is actuated, and the speed of the first conveyor is reduced prior to the transfer of said articles to said second conveyor as a function of the length of the item or the length of the first portion of the item falling within close proximity to a selected surface of said first conveyor that is close enough that the second conveyor can be expected to engage and impart a transverse force to discharge said articles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45455
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15588230', '14998406', '15977224', '14998405', '14792663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7694011168744422
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6225266726799354
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7547136724549915
- Mean Citation Score: 423.68037600000014
- Max Citation Score: 661.82104
- Similarity Product: 571.7486993151904

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