PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16148910
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["299", "039600"]

Abstract:
A steering mechanism and guidance system for a milling attachment device provides steering capability without impeding cutting depth control. The steering mechanism has at least one wheel that is rotated by an actuating mechanism such as an extending cylinder, synchronized actuators, or the like. The steering mechanism may be integrated with depth control by using a parallelogrammic structure with pivot points to assist in the depth control or may operate independent of and without impeding depth control.

Claim (Index 1):
A steering mechanism to provide steering capability for both a host vehicle and for a milling attachment selectively separable from, but connectable to the host vehicle operated by an operator, the host vehicle providing propelling force to the milling attachment, the steering mechanism comprising:\n a support bar disposed forward of and connected to a milling attachment forward of a rotating cutting head the support bar further comprising: a wheel pivotally mounted to the support bar via a pivot shaft; a first steering actuator connected to the pivot shaft; a second steering actuator connected to the pivot shaft; a laser guidance system positioned on the milling attachment and directed to a tolerance target set to sense the vertical and horizontal position of the milling attachment relative to the tolerance target; and milling attachment steering controls positionable for access and actuation by a steering operator observing the laser guidance system to steer the milling attachment and the host vehicle allowing the operator to maintain a horizontal and vertical compliance, independent of the host vehicle operator, the steering controls being connected to the first steering actuator and second steering actuator of the steering mechanism allowing a steering operator to control steering of both the host vehicle and the milling attachment by activating the first steering actuator and the second steering actuator of the milling attachment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46429
- Patent Class: 299.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13686461', '14088856', '11372725', '12792933', '11890332']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.633910594426819
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.553004913960506
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6258200263801877
- Mean Citation Score: 221.98334400000005
- Max Citation Score: 428.64755
- Similarity Product: 338.94199872494045

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

Dataset: test