PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15757577
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "216000"]

Abstract:
A method for fetching a target bin stored in a storage system ( 100 ), wherein the storage system includes a three-dimensional storage grid containing a plurality of bins stacked in vertical stacks, supporting rails ( 13 ) on the grid structure, and a plurality of vehicles ( 1 ), controllably arranged to move individually on the supporting rails. The method is performed by a control device in the system and comprises controlling at least one non-target vehicle to operate as intermediate storage for a bin located vertically above the target bin ( 5 ); controlling a target vehicle to pick up the target bin, and controlling the at least one non-target vehicle and the target vehicle to be positioned adjacent to each other in a linear manner on the supporting rails. A corresponding storage system has also been disclosed.

Claim (Index 5):
A storage system, comprising:\n a three-dimensional storage grid containing a plurality of bins stacked in vertical stacks; supporting rails on the grid structure; a plurality of vehicles controllably arranged to move on the supporting rails; and a control device, wherein the control device is configured to enable fetching of a target bin stored in the storage system by:\n controlling a plurality of non-target vehicles, wherein each of the non-target vehicles operates as an intermediate storage for a single bin located vertically above the target bin; \n controlling a target vehicle to pick up the target bin; and \n controlling the plurality of non-target vehicles and the target vehicle to be positioned adjacent to each other in a linear manner on the supporting rails, wherein the plurality of non-target vehicles and the target vehicle are the same type of vehicle able to lift only a bin at the time, \n wherein the control device is configured to control each of the plurality of non-target vehicles to operate as intermediate storage for the single bin located vertically above the target bin by:\n controlling the non-target vehicle to move to a target location above the target bin; \n controlling the non-target vehicle to pick up a single bin from the vertical stack at the target location; \n controlling the non-target vehicle to rest at a neighbour location; and \n determining if the target bin has become an upper bin in the vertical stack at the target location, and if this is not true, repeating the controlling steps until the target bin has become the upper bin in the vertical stack at the target location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96053
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14400497', '15568646', '15197391', '15632441', '14442410']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3688766635823417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4723566140456476
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3792246586286723
- Mean Citation Score: 187.188084
- Max Citation Score: 191.63503
- Similarity Product: 151.05586107808531

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

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