PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15768024
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["451", "005000"]

Abstract:
A stoning or honing device for automatically applying an essentially constant and uniform pressure of an abrasive hard component onto a suspended portion of a continuously moving metal strip surface, for the purpose of defect visual inspection, includes: a main frame supporting at least one carriage bearing a hard component, the carriage being connected to a drive system for moving the hard component towards the metal strip and to apply a controlled contact pressure thereof on the metal strip surface; and a means for moving transversally and back and forth at a defined speed the hard component bearing carriage with respect to a continuous motion direction of the strip. The device includes, on each strip side, a plurality of hard component bearing carriages having each a defined width stroke and arranged according to at least three different locations respectively associated with three separate rails including drive and control systems.

Claim (Index 4):
The stoning device of  claim 1 , wherein the carriage bearing a hard component is coupled to the drive system with a pivoting part allowing self-adjustment of the hard surface to the strip, preferably a ball joint, a spring suspension system, or flexible rubber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81609
- Patent Class: 451.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13996329', '11567668', '12293908', '11416304', '12295290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6830707945945136
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4617757333283966
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6609412884679019
- Mean Citation Score: 129.7984452
- Max Citation Score: 133.33139
- Similarity Product: 94.55280774005055

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