PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751649
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["198", "347100"]

Abstract:
A buffering device comprises a frame and a conveyor belt, a supply station, a discharge station, a first reversing member reverses the conveying direction of the conveyor belt, and a return guide includes a second reversing member. The buffering device is configured such that the conveyor belt moves from the supply station via the first reversing member to the discharge station, after which the conveyor belt is guided back to the supply station via the return guide. A portion of the conveyor belt n forms a buffer section of which the length varies. The remaining portion of the conveyor belt forms a compensation section for compensating a change of length of the buffer section during simultaneous displacement of the first and second reversing members with respect to the frame. The first reversing member includes a buffer carriage for radially guiding the conveyor belt, which guide is fixed to the carriage.

Claim (Index 2):
The buffering device according to  claim 1 , wherein the frame comprises two parallel support tracks extending in a transport plane and each having a front end and an opposite rear end, wherein at least the first reversing member is located at least partially between the support tracks as seen from above and along which it is displaceable, wherein the buffering device is configured such that under operating conditions the conveyor belt follows one of the support tracks from the front end thereof via the guide of the buffer carriage the other support track in opposite direction to the front end thereof, after which the conveyor belt is again guided back via the return guide to the front end of said one support track, wherein the conveyor belt is a first conveyor belt and the buffering device is provided with at least a second endless, drivable, flexible conveyor belt, which extends parallel to the first conveyor belt so as to form a common conveying surface and wherein the first reversing member is provided with a second guide for radially guiding the second conveyor belt which second guide is fixed to the buffer carriage and the second reversing member is provided with guides for radially guiding both conveyor belts which guides are fixed to the compensation carriage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63934
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15256088', '14749216', '11075123', '10469903', '13203553']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7257482330951204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.491581061346227
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.702331515920231
- Mean Citation Score: 248.922508
- Max Citation Score: 283.71365
- Similarity Product: 219.8215565890073

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

Dataset: test