PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16077629
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["198", "370040"]

Abstract:
A conveyor apparatus that conveys articles supported by a plurality of arranged article supports, the conveyor apparatus including infilling members, each being disposed between the article supports. In one embodiment, the infilling member includes a plate contact part in contact with the article support such that the upward curvature of the plate contact part is larger than that of the tray contact part of the article support corresponding to the plate contact part.

Claim (Index 1):
A conveyor apparatus for conveying articles, comprising:\n a plurality of traveling units that travel in series along a conveying path for the articles; a plurality of article supports that have article support surfaces for supporting the articles and that are caused to travel on the conveying path by the respective traveling units; and infilling members provided for the respective article supports, the infilling member filling a clearance between the article supports longitudinally adjacent to each other in the conveying path, the article support including a support contact part on a rear end of the article support along the conveying path, each infilling member including an infilling contact part on a front end of the infilling member along the conveying path, the infilling contact part being in contact with the support contact part, and the infilling contact part having a larger curvature than the support contact part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77273
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16077599', '16077517', '13210482', '12073099', '11386994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6723740510421352
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4769277339373911
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6528294193316608
- Mean Citation Score: 182.509164
- Max Citation Score: 269.06174
- Similarity Product: 237.5054396913123

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