PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920816
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["209", "659000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a sorting conveyor having pivotally mounted flaps for sorting articles into sorting outlets as a function of a sorting indication affixed to each of the articles. The conveyor includes a monitoring and control unit designed to cause each flap to pivot between a closed position in which the flap forms a conveyor portion suitable for conveying an article in a certain conveying direction and an open position in which the flap interrupts conveying of an article on the conveyor to deflect it towards an appropriate sorting outlet. The monitoring and control unit is also arranged to retrieve thickness data from a memory giving a certain thickness for the article to be deflected, and to respond by causing the flap to pivot into an open position through a certain opening amplitude determined as a function of the thickness data about the article that is to be deflected.

Claim (Index 7):
A sorting installation comprising a feed inlet via which articles are fed in, and sorting outlets into which said articles are sorted, said sorting installation including a sorting conveyor having pivotally mounted flaps according to  claim 1  for conveying said articles in series and flat from the feed inlet to the appropriate sorting outlets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08108
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13980814', '13805838', '13813301', '15023866', '14130189']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6603270025688884
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5032327812002624
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6446175804320259
- Mean Citation Score: 236.49138
- Max Citation Score: 246.4618
- Similarity Product: 157.08200782978534

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

Dataset: test