PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961199
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["209", "592000"]

Abstract:
A sorting device for sorting articles, comprising a conveyor which is movable in a conveying direction along a conveying path, the conveyor comprising a number of sorting units, each sorting unit comprising a carriage and at least one load-carrying element connected to the carriage for supporting articles, wherein the load-carrying elements are movable with regard to an associated carriage for unloading articles from the load-carrying elements at predetermined unloading positions, at least two of the sorting units being coupled together, a gap being formed between two adjacent load-carrying elements of two sorting units that are coupled together, the gap being covered by an intermediate element adapted to support an article, the sorting device comprising a stationarily arranged removal device for moving a selected article in a transverse direction off the conveyor at a predetermined removal position, wherein the removal device comprises a support element, the support element being movable along a longitudinal direction extending parallel to the conveying path, a first drive means being adapted to move the support element with a speed and in a transversal position corresponding to the selected article, the removal device further comprising a pushing element supported by the support element, a second drive means being adapted to move the pushing element in the transverse direction in order to remove the article from the conveyor.

Claim (Index 17):
The sorting device of  claim 1 , wherein the pushing element comprises at least one air nozzle for removing an article off the conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75294
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13102418', '14942536', '15588230', '14348228', '10430525']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6691161859628137
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4821817925989224
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6504227466264246
- Mean Citation Score: 174.07510200000004
- Max Citation Score: 186.99892
- Similarity Product: 133.11774244676351

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

Dataset: test