PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16360877
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["294", "186000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a gripping tool includes a gripper. The gripper is flexible. A plurality of granular materials is provided in an interior of the gripper. The gripping tool grips a workpiece by depressurizing the interior of the gripper in a state in which the gripper is caused to contact the workpiece. A diameter of at least a portion of the granular materials is less than 1774 μm.

Claim (Index 10):
A gripping tool, comprising:\n a gripper including a first portion and a second portion and being flexible; a plurality of granular materials provided in a first space between the first portion and the second portion; a first port; and a second port, the first portion contacting a workpiece and including\n a concave portion recessed in the first direction, the first direction being from the first portion toward the second portion, and \n a convex portion protruding in a second direction opposite to the first direction and being provided around the concave portion, \n the first port communicating with the first space, a pipe being connected to the first space and configured to depressurize the first space, the second port having a hole piercing the concave portion and the second portion along the first direction, a pipe being connected to the second port and configured to depressurize a second space surrounded with the concave portion and the convex portion, the gripping tool gripping the workpiece by depressurizing the first space in a state in which the first portion is deformed by being caused to contact the workpiece, in a state in which the first portion does not contact the workpiece, a dimension in a perpendicular direction of the concave portion being longer than a dimension in the perpendicular direction of the hole, the perpendicular direction being perpendicular to the first direction, the granular materials being provided between the convex portion and the second portion, a diameter of at least a portion of the granular materials being less than 1774 \u03bcm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10653491', '16033461', '13382386', '13171500', '15122817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7078343562987526
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4614539800699482
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6831963186758722
- Mean Citation Score: 132.75243400000002
- Max Citation Score: 135.66988
- Similarity Product: 97.92431572659972

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