PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873260
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["111", "177000"]

Abstract:
A flow control assembly for an agricultural metering system includes a first gate control rod configured to couple to a first gate of a seed meter and a second gate control rod configured to couple to a second gate of the seed meter. The flow control assembly also includes a locking assembly configured to block translation of the first gate control rod at least while the second gate control rod is in a positioned that corresponds to an open position of the second gate and to block translation of the second gate control rod at least while the first gate control rod is in a position that corresponds to an open position of the first gate.

Claim (Index 1):
A flow control assembly for an agricultural metering system comprising:\n a locking assembly comprising:\n a first plate configured to couple to a first gate control rod, wherein the first gate control rod is configured to couple to a first gate of a seed meter and to move the first gate between a closed position and an open position via translation of the first gate control rod between a first position that corresponds to the closed position of the first gate and a second position that corresponds to the open position of the first gate; \n a first cam configured to couple to a second gate control rod, wherein the second gate control rod is configured to couple to a second gate of the seed meter and to move the second gate between a closed position and an open position via translation of the second gate control rod between a first position that corresponds to the closed position of the second gate and a second position that corresponds to the open position of the second gate; \n a first shaft having a first end configured to engage the first cam; \n a second cam configured to couple to a third gate control rod, wherein the third gate control rod is configured to couple to a third gate of the seed meter and to move the third gate between a closed position and an open position via translation of the third gate control rod between a first position that corresponds to the closed position of the third gate and a second position that corresponds to the open position of the third gate; and \n a second shaft having a first end configured to engage the second cam; \n wherein the first plate is configured to contact a second end of the first shaft and a second end of the second shaft at least while the first gate control rod is in the second position to block translation of the second gate control rod from the first position via contact between the first cam and the first end of the first shaft and to block translation of the third gate control rod from the first position via contact between the second cam and the first end of the second shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02564
- Patent Class: 111.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14931918', '14931935', '15709959', '14796534', '15626921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7281664584178391
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5480726724662864
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7101570798226838
- Mean Citation Score: 302.008062
- Max Citation Score: 412.19418
- Similarity Product: 408.73215708200456

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

Dataset: test