PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["414", "788400"]

Abstract:
A parts supply apparatus includes a supply tray stacking portion where a supply tray containing parts is stacked; a tray raising/lowering unit for separating one of the supply trays from the supply tray stacking portion; a tray holding unit with which the tray raising/lowering unit is provided; and an empty tray stacking portion where an empty tray, which is the supply tray that is emptied after supply of the parts, is stacked. The empty tray stacking portion is disposed above the supply tray stacking portion in a vertical direction.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for manufacturing an assembly using a robot system, the robot system including a part supply apparatus and a robot, the part supply apparatus having (i) a supply tray stacking portion configured to hold a plurality of supply trays in a stacked arrangement, each of the supply trays being capable of containing parts therein; (ii) a tray raising/lowering unit having a tray holding unit; (iii) an empty tray stacking portion configured to hold a plurality of the supply trays in a stacked arrangement; and (iv) a tray moving unit, the method comprising:\n separating from the supply tray stacking portion and holding one of the supply trays by the tray raising/lowering unit; supplying, by the tray raising/lowering unit, the one of the supply trays that is separated in order to supply the parts; moving, by the tray moving unit, the one of the supply trays that is separated toward the robot; raising, by the tray raising/lowering unit, the one of the supply trays that is separated up to a position where the robot is capable of receiving at least one of the parts in the one of the supply trays; receiving, by the robot, the at least one of the parts; and assembling an assembly using the at least one of the parts after receiving the at least one of the part by the robot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34146
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15090785', '12181735', '12524069', '10365237', '11315791']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8403680013802471
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5506388928156971
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8113950905237921
- Mean Citation Score: 252.298604
- Max Citation Score: 428.01984
- Similarity Product: 400.87512887866967

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

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