PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["172", "002000"]

Abstract:
A disc opener unit for an agricultural implement has a down pressure adjustment device that automatically adjusts the amount of down pressure applied on a furrowing disc based on strain measurements taken by a strain gauge or load cell. The strain gauge, which may be mounted to an arm that is used to set the position of a depth setting gauge wheel, provides feedback to a processor that in turn controls the amount of hydraulic fluid in a hydraulic cylinder to adjust the down force applied on the disc. The amount of down pressure is therefore adjusted in substantially real-time in response to changes in field conditions, which improves furrow depth consistency and reduces wear on the gauge wheel and its components.

Claim (Index 20):
The implement of  claim 18 , wherein the load sensor is configured to detect the load applied though the depth control arm of the first disc opener unit, the detected load being indicative of an actual down pressure being applied on the discs of the plurality of disc opener units.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70667
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12820720', '12820759', '14571603', '13605210', '12621959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7835699092821553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5357051426733774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7587834326212776
- Mean Citation Score: 327.857366
- Max Citation Score: 407.91092
- Similarity Product: 278.7872707908225

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