PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15575868
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "455110"]

Abstract:
An electron beam irradiation device which can uniformly project electron beams to the entire outer surface of a container by using a small-sized low-energy electron accelerator. When each of the side surface portions of the container is irradiated with the electron beams by supporting a bottom surface portion of the container, a position of the container is moved by the supporting portion so that a distance between each of the side surface portions of the container and an irradiation window of the electron accelerator is made substantially equal. Subsequently, when an upper surface portion and a bottom surface portion of the container are irradiated with the electron beams by holding the side surface portion of the container, the position of the container is moved by the holding portion so that the distances between the upper surface portion and the bottom surface portion of the container and the irradiation windows of the electron accelerators become substantially equal.

Claim (Index 1):
An electron beam irradiation device provided continuously to an aseptic processing room, sterilizing an outer surface of a container accommodating a sterilized article by electron beam irradiation, and conveying the container into the aseptic processing room, comprising:\n a supporting portion for supporting a bottom surface portion of the container; a holding portion for holding a side surface portion of the container; and a plurality of electron accelerators for projecting electron beams at least to the side surface portion, an upper surface portion, and the bottom surface portion of the container held by the supporting portion or the holding portion, wherein the supporting portion includes a supplementary member for supplementing the container from the bottom surface portion and a movement mechanism for moving the supplementary member so as to move the container captured by the supplementary member in a front-and-rear direction, a left-and-right direction, and a vertical direction toward its conveying direction and a rotation mechanism for rotating the supplementary member around its support shaft so that the container captured by the supplementary member is rotated; the holding portion includes a support member for supporting the container from the side surface portion and another movement mechanism for moving the support member so as to move the container supported by the support member in the front-and-rear direction toward the conveying direction; when the bottom surface portion of the container is captured by the supplementary member, the movement mechanism and the rotation mechanism are operated so that an irradiated portion on the side surface portion of the container is located close from an irradiation window of the electron accelerator and at substantially an equal distance; and when the side surface portion of the container is supported by the support member, the another movement mechanism is operated so that an irradiated portion on the upper surface portion and/or the bottom surface portion of the container is located close from the irradiation window of the electron accelerator and at substantially an equal distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.89286
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14399426', '14654812', '12448308', '12657491', '13788205']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.676308557906678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5241693380675186
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6610946359227621
- Mean Citation Score: 248.05836
- Max Citation Score: 332.6373
- Similarity Product: 264.9443495803893

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

Dataset: test