PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907668
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["029", "407100"]

Abstract:
A method of verifying that a robot carried self-piercing rivet gun system is set-up so that workpieces that are to be riveted will be normal to a self-piercing rivet gun of the robot carried self-piercing rivet gun system during riveting includes utilizing a perpendicularity sensor to verify that the workpieces will be normal to the self-piercing gun during riveting.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of verifying that a robot carried self-piercing rivet gun system is set-up so that workpieces that are to be riveted will be normal to a self-piercing rivet gun of the robot carried self-piercing rivet gun system during riveting, the robot carried self-piercing gun system having a robotically moved C-shaped arm having opposed ends with the self-piercing rivet gun affixed to one of the opposed ends and the other opposed end having a receptacle in which an upsetting die is receivable, the method comprising:\n providing a perpendicularity sensor and placing the perpendicularity sensor in the receptacle; moving the C-shaped arm so that the perpendicularity sensor contacts a fixedly located workpiece; sensing with the perpendicularity sensor whether the fixedly located workpiece is flat against a flat end surface of a body of the perpendicularity sensor; and having the perpendicularity sensor provide a signal activating an alert device when the perpendicularity sensor senses that the fixedly located workpiece is flat against the flat end surface of the body of the perpendicularity sensor verifying that the workpieces that are to be riveted will be normal to the self-piercing rivet gun during riveting.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93548
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15797636', '15179391', '13413754', '12833288', '10300317']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8782891353340897
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4840711050322355
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8388673323039043
- Mean Citation Score: 219.07658
- Max Citation Score: 230.56935
- Similarity Product: 178.9795277519613

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

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