PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["209", "573000"]

Abstract:
According to the present invention there is provided a method of handling components on a carrier, the method comprising the steps of, providing a carrier having a plurality of components supported thereon; testing the plurality of components to identify good components and bad components, wherein good components are those components which successfully pass testing and bad components are those components which fail testing; defining a first good components to be picked from the carrier; defining an integer number of components to be a jump value; locating a pickup head, which is operable to pick components from the carrier, above a first reference position on the carrier; identifying one or more good components, which are within the jump value from the first reference position; moving the pickup head or the carrier so that the pickup head is centered above at least one of the one or more good components; moving the pickup head or the carrier, so that the pickup head is moved from above said at least one of the one or more good components to above the defined first good component to be picked without picking said at least one of the one or more good components; centering the pickup head above the first good components to be picked; picking the first good components to be picked. There is further provided a corresponding component handling apparatus.

Claim (Index 7):
The method according to  claim 1 , comprising,\n (a) determining a score (F) for each good component which is within the jump value from the first reference position, by, for each good component, adding a cost value (G) which is representative of the cost of moving the pickup head from its first reference position to said component, plus a cost value (H) which is representative of the estimated cost to move from said component to the first component which is to be picked (b) moving the pickup head so that it is centered above the component which has the lowest (F) score; (c) if the component which has the lowest score is within the jump value from the first component to be picked, then moving the pickup head from the component which has the lowest score to the first component to be picked; if the component which has the lowest score is not within the jump value from the first component to be picked, then determining a score (F) for each good component which is within the jump value from said component, by, for each good component, adding a cost value (G) which is representative of the cost of moving the pickup head from its current position to said component, plus a cost value (H) which is representative of the estimated cost to move from said component to the first component which is to be picked, and moving the pickup head so that it is centered above the component which has the lowest score (F), and repeating these steps until the pickup head is centred above a component which is within the jump value from the first component to be picked.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18182
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15128836', '15523754', '15562025', '10589429', '15741599']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6218799263804571
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5142480752359109
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6111167412660026
- Mean Citation Score: 164.584912
- Max Citation Score: 176.58673000000005
- Similarity Product: 82.85933805590274

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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