PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000255
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["111", "149000"]

Abstract:
A metering system for a row unit for individual dispensing of grains comprises metering devices having a chamber for carrying grains, whereby a defined pressure level in the chamber is higher than ambient pressure. At least two metering elements establish a border to the chamber, whereby the metering elements are arranged within the housing so that they can be turned and the metering elements consist of cut-outs arranged along a curved path for picking up grains. At least one grain dispensing area is intended, which is defined by the chamber and the metering elements. The grain dispensing area includes a seed inlet element for transporting separated grains to a seed metering pipe to dispense the separated grains into a furrow, whereby a pressure application device is arranged at the seed inlet element or the seed metering pipe, to produce an air stream for the acceleration of the grains.

Claim (Index 1):
A metering system for a row unit of an agricultural machine for an individual dispensing of grains, comprising\n at least two metering devices, whereby the at least two metering devices include at least one chamber for carrying a quantity of the grains that are to be dispensed, at least two metering elements that establish a border to the at least one chamber, whereby the at least two metering elements are rotatably mounted within the housing of the at least two metering devices and each of the metering elements includes openings, which are arranged along a curved path at regular intervals for picking up grains, and at least one grain dispensing area, which is defined by the at least one chamber and by the at least two metering elements, wherein the at least one grain dispensing area is adjacent a seed inlet element for a seed metering pipe through which the separated grains are dispensed into a seed furrow in the soil, and whereby a pressure application device, in communication with the at least one chamber and/or to a pipe of the air supply of the at least one chamber, operably produces a stream of air in the grain dispensing area having a pressure that is sufficiently greater than ambient pressure such that the grains released from a selected metering element are accelerated by the stream of air into the seed metering pipe.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98734
- Patent Class: 111.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15007733', '14865243', '14908630', '14407547', '14908367']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7396498116276956
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5069589612389193
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.716380726588818
- Mean Citation Score: 213.797584
- Max Citation Score: 341.69144
- Similarity Product: 338.32110680834285

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

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