PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918959
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "276000"]

Abstract:
In one example, a media support includes a continuous loop belt and multiple suction cups arranged along the outer perimeter of the belt. Each suction cup has a port aligned with a hole in the belt so that air may be evacuated from the suction cup when connected to a vacuum source.

Claim (Index 13):
A vacuum control system for a continuous loop media support belt, the vacuum control system comprising:\n multiple rows of multiple enclosures, each enclosure defining a vacuum chamber to underlay an upper run of the belt; a linear slot along a top of each enclosure to align with holes in the belt; a tubular duct; circumferential slots in the duct arranged to include at least one group of multiple slots and at least one single slot; and multiple conduits each extending between the duct and one of the enclosures; and where the duct is: translatable to align some or all of the conduits to a circumferential slot according to the translational position of the duct; and rotatable to connect some or all of the aligned conduits to a circumferential slot according to the rotational position of the duct.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.30952
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14908190', '14908197', '15913732', '10089645', '12988159']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7304029023402575
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4507549259533615
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.702438104701568
- Mean Citation Score: 141.36132
- Max Citation Score: 162.42877
- Similarity Product: 128.38834183603942

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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