PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055663
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "203400"]

Abstract:
A solar tracker assembly comprises a support column, a torsion beam connected to the support column, a mounting mechanism attached to the torsion beam, a drive system connected to the torsion beam, and a torsion limiter connected to an output of the drive system. When an external force causes a level of torsion on the drive system to exceed a pre-set limit the torsion limiter facilitates rotational movement of the solar tracker assembly in the direction of the torsion, thereby allowing the external force to rotate about a pivot axis extending through the torsion beam. Exemplary embodiments also include methods of aligning a plurality of rows of solar trackers.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of aligning a solar array, comprising:\n providing a plurality of rows of solar trackers including multiple rows of linked solar trackers; providing a torsion limiter connected to each row of solar trackers; receiving a level of torsion on at least one row of solar trackers such that the level of torsion on the at least one row of solar trackers exceeds a pre-set torsion limit; using the torsion limiter to stop rotational movement of the at least one row of the multiple rows of solar trackers when the at least one row reaches its maximum limit position; and driving the other multiple rows of solar trackers such that each row reaches its maximum limit position until all of the plurality of rows of solar trackers are aligned.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08929
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14624930', '15437488', '12137764', '13895117', '16097289']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7547995377240662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5963647133156541
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.738956055283225
- Mean Citation Score: 381.028052
- Max Citation Score: 551.5535
- Similarity Product: 464.7991997479797

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

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