PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750462
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["198", "323000"]

Abstract:
A human transport device such as an escalator or a moving walkway may include tread elements connected into an endless transport belt, a drive unit for driving the transport belt, and a monitoring apparatus for detecting a faulty arrangement of at least one of the tread elements in the transport belt. The tread elements of the driven transport belt may pass through a transport region and a return region between a first return station and a second return station. The monitoring apparatus may have a detection means and a triggering unit. The detection means may be arranged in a direction of a longitudinal extension of the human transport device below the tread elements of the transport region between the first and second return stations. The detection means may be connected to the triggering unit, and the triggering unit may actuate upon mechanical influence on the detection means.

Claim (Index 32):
The human transport device of  claim 21  wherein the at least one detection means comprises a capacitive proximity sensor, a capacitance thereof varying in the event of the mechanical action on the detection means, wherein the triggering unit is triggered at a predetermined capacitance variation, and/or in that the detection means has an inductive proximity sensor, an induction thereof varying in the event of the mechanical action on the detection means, wherein the triggering unit is triggered at a predetermined induction variation, and/or in that the detection means has a resistance sensor, a resistance thereof varying in the event of the mechanical action on the detection means, wherein the least one triggering unit is triggered at a predetermined resistance variation, and/or in that the detection means comprises an optical sensor comprising an elastically deformable light conductor, measured values thereof varying in the event of the mechanical action on the light conductor, wherein the triggering unit is triggered at a predetermined measured-value variation, and/or in that the detection means comprises a flow sensor comprising a fluid-perfused elastically deformable hose, measured-flow values thereof varying in the event of the mechanical action on the fluid-perfused elastically deformable hose, wherein the triggering unit is triggered at a predetermined variation of the measured-flow values, and/or in that the detection means comprises an acceleration sensor that is disposed on a vibration transmitter, measured-acceleration values of the acceleration sensor varying in the event of the mechanical action on the vibration transmitter, wherein the triggering unit is triggered at a predetermined variation of the measured acceleration values.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38462
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13457787', '13769014', '14580487', '14151283', '15752731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6976353978976438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4654258640260471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6744144445104842
- Mean Citation Score: 152.28166600000003
- Max Citation Score: 162.51338
- Similarity Product: 104.44309961078406

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

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