PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16197977
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "412000"]

Abstract:
Transport device having a transport route, with a turnaround portion to change orientation of a transport unit by 180° in the longitudinal direction along the transport route, including a turnaround portion with an entrance connected to a first transport route portion by a first entrance end and a second, open entrance end, and an exit connected to a second transport route portion by a first exit end and a second, open exit end. A common movement path is formed at least in some portions in a region of a first transfer position, and the transport unit is movable along the path. To be turned around, the transport unit is moved to the entrance of the turnaround portion, transferred from the entrance to the exit of the turnaround portion, and moved from the exit of the turnaround portion.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for turning around a transport unit of a transport device in the form of a long-stator linear motor comprising a transport route, comprising:\n the transport unit being moved in the longitudinal direction along the transport route, wherein a turnaround portion for changing an orientation of the transport unit by 180\u00b0 in the longitudinal direction along the transport route is provided on the transport route, an entrance being provided at the turnaround portion, which entrance is connected to a first transport route portion by a first entrance end and on which a second open entrance end is provided, in that an exit is provided at the turnaround portion, which exit is connected to a second transport route portion by a first exit end and on which a second open exit end is provided, the entrance and the exit of the turnaround portion forming a common movement path at least in some portions in the region of a first transfer position, the transport unit being moved along said path, and wherein, in order to be turned around, the transport unit is moved from the first transport route portion to the entrance of the turnaround portion while having a first transport unit end pointing in the movement direction and a second transport unit end pointing counter to the movement direction, is transferred from the entrance to the exit of the turnaround portion at the first transfer position, and is moved from the exit of the turnaround portion along the movement path to the second transport route portion while having the second transport unit end at the front in the movement direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75926
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16197934', '15189416', '16007713', '16105366', '16022072']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7155550740657162
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4685921304634028
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6908587797054849
- Mean Citation Score: 188.965798
- Max Citation Score: 220.63716
- Similarity Product: 159.37789721956008

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

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