PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16146497
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "435000"]

Abstract:
The lifting and lowering apparatus includes a plurality of shelf members  6  and  7  and a lifting and lowering mechanism  8 . The shelf members  6  and  7  respectively include placing tables A and B positioned on different heights, and each placing table is provided with a conveying unit  10 . The shelf members  6  and  7  are lifted and lowered by the lifting and lowering mechanism  8 , whereby the placing table A (B) of the shelf member  6  ( 7 ) which is one of the shelf members  6  and  7  is adjusted to be on the same height as the placing table B (A) of the other shelf member  7  ( 6 ), and with this state, an object is transferred from the placing table of one of the shelf members to the placing table of the other shelf member. The shelf members  6  and  7  are again lifted and lowered to adjust the placing table B (A) of the other shelf member  7  ( 6 ) to be on the same height as the placing table A (B) which belongs to the shelf member  6  ( 7 ) and which is positioned on a different height, returns the object to the shelf member  6  ( 7 ), and transfers the object to the placing table A (B) which is positioned on a different height from the previous placing table A (B).

Claim (Index 19):
A method for lifting and lowering an object, the method comprising:\n providing a first station and a second station that are positioned at different heights; providing a first shelf member and a second shelf member that is disposed adjacent to the first shelf member; wherein the first shelf member includes a plurality of first placing tables positioned at different heights, whereas the second shelf member includes a plurality of second placing tables positioned at different heights, and wherein the first and the second shelf members lift and lower synchronously, such that when one of the first and the second shelf members lifts, the other lowers, whereas when the other lifts, the one lowers, adjusting a height of one of the first placing tables to a height of the first station to transfer an object placed on the first station to the one of the first placing tables; changing a height of the first shelf member and a height of the second shelf member simultaneously to adjust a height of the one of the first placing tables to a height of one of the second placing tables; transferring the object from the one of the first placing tables to the one of the second placing tables; changing a height of the first shelf member and a height of the second shelf member again simultaneously to adjust a height of the one of the second placing tables to a height of another of the first placing tables; transferring the object from the one of the second placing tables to the another of the first placing tables; repeating transference of the object between the first and the second shelf members according to necessity to transfer the object to a desired height; and discharging the object to the second station.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.90769
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15729892', '12730667', '12920675', '15533723', '14956953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7347498449707633
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.473412691216064
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7086161295952934
- Mean Citation Score: 190.857796
- Max Citation Score: 205.3402
- Similarity Product: 133.7700315715313

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

Dataset: test