PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883863
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "617000"]

Abstract:
A pallet feeder assembly for use with a concrete products machine of a type supporting a mold box within a production zone comprises a conveyor having a load/unload expanse configured to be disposed below the production zone, an upstream staging expanse upstream, and upstream and downstream ends. A plurality of sensors operative to detect a presence of a pallet on the conveyor are disposed along a length of the conveyor and include sensors disposed upstream and downstream of the load/unload expanse. Transport means on the conveyor move a pallet loaded on the transport means between the upstream and downstream ends of the conveyor. An open portion within the load/unload expanse is configured to admit a lifting means for raising the pallet from the transport means up into the production zone against an underside of a mold box during a production cycle of a concrete products machine.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for moving pallets on a conveyor between upstream and downstream ends, the method comprising:\n allowing selection of one of a plurality of displayed motion profiles by a machine operator, each of the plurality of motion profiles preset to include at least an operation speed, a deceleration rate, and an acceleration rate; implementing the selected one of the plurality of motion profiles on a pallet conveyor of a type including a servo motor for moving belts on the conveyor that are operative to support and transport a pallet thereon, the process of implementing the selected motion profile including the steps of:\n accelerating the servo motor by the acceleration rate up to the operation speed of the selected motion profile such that the pallet on the conveyor moves at or near that rate and speed; and \n responsive to a detected position of the pallet on the conveyor, automatically decelerating the servo motor by the deceleration rate from the operation speed down to zero so that the pallet stops on the conveyor at or near a desired position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23529
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10110462', '13820344', '14292899', '10699622', '11278235']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6846476199619153
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4556064463518298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6617435026009066
- Mean Citation Score: 191.077706
- Max Citation Score: 193.21634
- Similarity Product: 156.24036577711342

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