PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874732
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["221", "001000"]

Abstract:
A pellet column is formed in a metering duct. The lowermost pellet is located in a connection point where an outlet duct is connected to the metering duct and leads transversely away therefrom. A first duct, which opens into the metering duct via a first duct mouth above the connection point, is impinged with negative pressure, wherein a pellet is suctioned onto the first duct mouth and is fixed thereto. This pellet acts as a block for the pellets thereabove. A second duct, which opens into the connection point via a second duct mouth, is impinged with positive pressure, wherein the pellet at the connection point is pneumatically ejected via the outlet duct and supplied to a container. After the ejection of the lowermost pellet, the negative pressure in the first duct is switched off such that the pellet held at the first duct mouth advances toward the connection point.

Claim (Index 9):
A singularization device comprising:\n a storage space for pellets; a metering duct leading downward from said storage space and being vertically oriented; an outlet duct connected to said metering duct at a connection point and leading transversely away from said metering duct; at least one first pressure differential duct opening into said metering duct above said connection point via a first duct mouth; a second pressure differential duct opening into said connection point via a second duct mouth; said first pressure differential duct being configured to be impinged with negative pressure; said second pressure differential duct being configured to be impinged with positive pressure; a negative pressure source configured to impinge said first pressure differential duct with negative pressure so as to cause a pellet to be suctioned onto said first duct mouth and become locationally fixed thereat so as to act as a block for pellets located therabove; a positive pressure source configured to impinge said second pressure differential duct with positive pressure so as to pneumatically eject a lowermost pellet located at said connection point via said outlet duct and to supply the pellet to a target container; and, said negative pressure source being configured to cease impinging said first pressure differential duct with negative pressure after the pneumatic ejection of the lowermost pellet so as to cause the pellet locationally fixed at said first duct mouth to move toward said connection point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43284
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12097885', '15770421', '14071676', '14032357', '15293927']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7211622773273234
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4715338923661406
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6961994388312052
- Mean Citation Score: 144.17389599999996
- Max Citation Score: 155.5399
- Similarity Product: 117.80005735736488

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

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