PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913672
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["136", "244000"]

Abstract:
In embodiments, a mechanical solar tracker disclosed herein includes a frame, an elevation cam with an elevation cam surface attached to the frame, and a rotation drive mechanically coupled to the frame. A collector carriage is coupled to the rotation drive and configured to rotate circumferentially around a vertical axis. Also, a collector is connected to the collector carriage and a hinge is coupled between the collector and the collector carriage wherein the hinge is configured to rotate the collector about a horizontal plane at a pivot point. Additionally, a cam follower is coupled between the collector and the elevation cam and the cam follower is configured to translate, based on a surface input from the elevation cam surface, rotation of the collector about the pivot point to track the sun's direction, by tracing the elevation cam surface with the cam follower.

Claim (Index 13):
The mechanical solar tracker of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a second elevation cam with second elevation cam surface, the second elevation cam also attached to the frame; a second cam follower coupled between the collector and the second elevation cam, the second cam follower configured to translate, based on a surface input from the second elevation cam surface, rotation of the collector about the pivot point; wherein the combination of:\n the cam follower coupled between the collector and the elevation cam, \n the second cam follower coupled between the collector and the second elevation cam, \n the hinge coupled between the collector and the collector carriage, and \n the rotation drive, \n together provide a kinematic or semi-kinematic interface between the collector and the frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58333
- Patent Class: 136.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15577428', '12932574', '14114884', '14624930', '15437488']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7757085791848258
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4574799147654298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7438857127428862
- Mean Citation Score: 163.11642799999996
- Max Citation Score: 166.10193999999996
- Similarity Product: 138.23945815711852

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

Dataset: test