{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"modular_decomposition__accounting_auditing","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["bulk solids inventory audit silo hopper weighing load cells physical inventory measurement","modular hopper cassette individual weighing aggregate rack scale"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":"No exact disclosure of an audit-oriented cassette rack combining local scales, a separately weighed interface heel, removable reference weighing, and an independent whole-rack scale was located."},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["loss in weight feeder multiple hopper load cell flexible connector side load","intermediate bulk container weigh modules manifold flexible connections","multiple hopper bulk weighing system"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["weigh module hopper flexible piping restraints installation manual","auditing inventory quantities bulk materials physical count standard","IBC rack weighing cells multiple containers hoses"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["multiple hoppers individual load cells common frame weighing","nested weighing system individual bins total platform scale removable hopper","plural hoppers each own weighing system common processing stage"],"source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":"The searches found independently weighed containers and plural-hopper systems, but not the complete nested local-plus-gross mechanical measurement architecture."}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"Requirements (ASA 501 December 2023)","publisher":"Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board","url":"https://standards.auasb.gov.au/node/1814","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["When inventory is material, the auditor must obtain sufficient appropriate evidence regarding its existence and condition.","Required procedures ordinarily include attending physical inventory counting, inspecting inventory, performing test counts, and reconciling final inventory records to count results.","Alternative procedures are required when attendance is impracticable."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"Load Cell and Weigh Module Handbook","publisher":"Rice Lake Weighing Systems","url":"https://www.ricelake.com/media/b5mlti1q/m_22054_lc-wm_handbook_enus_reve.pdf","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["Attached piping can be a major source of vessel-weighing error because it transmits forces outside the intended load-cell path.","Flexible hoses, bellows, loops, and independently supported common discharge piping are established measures for reducing cross-loading and weighing error.","Physical calibration is needed to capture attachment and piping effects that a load-cell simulator cannot reproduce."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"IBC rack: Unit for storing and discharging intermediate bulk containers","publisher":"Tetra Pak","url":"https://www.tetrapak.com/content/dam/tetrapak/media-box/global/en/services/parts/standard-components/documents/ibc-rack-pd-leaflet.pdf","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["A commercial rack accepts forklift-positioned IBCs that stand on weighing cells monitoring each container's contents.","The rack integrates hoses, valves, changeover pipework, gravity discharge, and arrangements for two, three, four, or six containers.","This product substantially overlaps the proposal's removable physical inventory modules, in-place local weighing, common supporting frame, and shared transfer connections."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"US20120181093A1 — Multi-flow bulk weighing system","publisher":"KSI Conveyors, Inc. / Google Patents","url":"https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120181093A1/en","source_type":"OTHER","claims_supported":["The patent application discloses plural bulk-material hoppers, each with its own weighing system and discharge gate.","The independently weighed hopper contents can be directed sequentially or simultaneously to a common downstream processing stage.","The disclosure establishes older terminology and practice for modular bulk storage, independent hopper weighing, gates, and recombination of flows."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The audit need for evidence over physical inventory quantity is explicit, and process-weighing guidance confirms that piping, side loads, and unintended force paths can bias vessel measurements. However, the specific assertion that a monolithic polymer day-bin discrepancy necessarily requires emptying or redistribution, or cannot be bounded by existing diagnostics, was not directly documented in the retained sources.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Tetra Pak IBC rack","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Multiple removable containers are held in one rack, each container stands on weighing cells, and integrated hoses, valves, and changeover pipework permit shared gravity discharge.","remaining_difference":"The leaflet does not disclose a separately weighed interface heel, an independent whole-rack gross scale, local mechanical analog indicators, or removal to an independent reference platform as an audit fault-isolation protocol."},{"name":"KSI multi-flow bulk weighing system","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"Plural bounded hoppers each have their own weighing system and gate, with their flows recombined at a downstream stage.","remaining_difference":"It targets controlled discharge and blending rather than ending-inventory auditability, and does not disclose removable tare-stable cassettes, a weighed shared-path heel, or an independent aggregate rack measurement."},{"name":"Established load-decoupled vessel-weighing practice","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Flexible connections, independent pipe support, controlled force paths, and physical calibration directly address the proposal's side-load and cross-coupling mechanisms.","remaining_difference":"The handbook addresses accurate vessel installation rather than decomposition into removable inventory modules with nested local and aggregate measurements."}],"prior_art_disposition":"SUBSTANTIAL_COLLISION","contrastive_claim_remaining":"Relative to the Tetra Pak rack and plural-hopper weighing systems, the remaining falsifiable claim is that adding a separately weighed shared-path heel, removable reference-weighable tare-stable cassettes, and an independent whole-rack gross scale will localize an induced measurement fault to one cassette and reconcile local-plus-heel mass to direct aggregate mass within predeclared tolerances without redistributing neighboring contents.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim fails if blinded bench trials show excessive neighboring-reading changes during cassette removal or reseating, failure of local-plus-heel readings to reconcile with independent reference and whole-rack masses, inability to identify which cassette received a reversible tare or side-load fault, or evidence that the closest retained product already supplies materially the same nested checks.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered direct phrasing, older loss-in-weight and multi-hopper terminology, audit standards, commercial IBC racks, vessel-weighing guidance, and component combinations. Four opened sources from four publisher contexts were retained, including an official standard and first-party technical sources. This remains a coarse, non-exhaustive screen.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The general need to substantiate material inventory physically and the susceptibility of vessel weights to attachment-force errors are supported, although the plant-specific severity and claimed inability to localize errors remain unverified; therefore problem evidence is only partly supported.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Despite substantial collision with existing rack and plural-hopper systems, the combined effect of an explicit heel measurement, removable reference weighing, and an independent nested gross measurement can be tested against stated reconciliation and fault-localization outcomes.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A guarded three-cassette rig using at most 15 kilograms of inert beads, blinded fill states, reversible local perturbations, and predeclared reconciliation, repeatability, and cross-coupling tolerances is bounded, reversible, and capable of falsifying the remaining claim.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"No obvious stop applies to the restricted inert-material bench test if load ratings, guarding, spill control, and approved lifting methods are enforced. Facility engineering retains mechanical-safety authority, and accounting and audit personnel retain authority over evidentiary use; production inventory and financial adjustments remain excluded.","source_ids":["SRC2"]}},"screen_survival":false,"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded search found substantial prior-art overlap and cannot establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, or realized value. It also cannot exclude undiscovered products, patents, installations, or older terminology that disclose the remaining feature combination."}