PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15910537
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["012", "058500"]

Abstract:
An automatic shoe-lacing machine for securing a shoelace onto a shoe upper includes a jig unit, a robotic arm unit and a control unit. The jig unit permits the shoe upper to be disposed thereon. The robotic arm unit is disposed at the proximity of the jig unit. The robotic arm unit simultaneously holds and moves two tipping members of the shoelace for sequentially passing the tipping members through eyelets formed in the shoe upper. The control unit controls the movement of the robotic arm unit.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for securing a shoelace onto a shoe upper by an automatic shoe-lacing machine, the automatic shoe-lacing machine including a robotic arm unit and a machine vision unit, the shoelace having a flexible lace body, and two tipping members that are respectively connected to two opposite ends of the lace body, the shoe upper having two spaced-apart lace stay pieces, each of the lace stay pieces being formed with a plurality of spaced-apart eyelets, said method comprising steps of:\n a) capturing, by the machine vision unit, a digital image that is related to the eyelets of the shoe upper, and determining, by the machine vision unit, the positions of two of the eyelets through which the tipping members of the shoelace would be operated to respectively pass via the digital image; b) passing, by the robotic arm unit, the tipping members respectively through the two eyelets, and moving, by the robotic arm unit, the tipping members away from the shoe upper such that two free end segments of the lace body that respectively connected the tipping members are crossed; c) holding, by the robotic arm unit, the tipping members and rotating the shoe upper and the robotic arm unit relative to each other, such that the two free end segments of the lace body are not crossed; and d) repeating steps a) to c) until the tipping members pass through all the eyelets of the shoe upper.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04444
- Patent Class: 12.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15491627', '14703798', '14795864', '10761229', '11078734']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6059352387718419
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.498569956980692
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5951987105927269
- Mean Citation Score: 228.253832
- Max Citation Score: 256.30408
- Similarity Product: 216.36868476922515

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

Dataset: test