PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16363364
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["294", "086400"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a gripping tool includes a gripper. The gripper is flexible. A granular material 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. The gripper includes a first portion contacting the workpiece, a second portion opposing the first portion, and a fibrous membrane having a plurality of pores and being provided between the first portion and the second portion. A diameter of at least a portion of the pores is smaller than a diameter of the granular material. The granular material is provided between the fibrous membrane and the second portion.

Claim (Index 10):
A gripping system, comprising:\n a robot mechanism including an arm; the tool according to  claim 1  mounted to a tip of the arm; a first depressurizing apparatus connected to a first space, the first space being between the first portion and the second portion, the first depressurizing apparatus being configured to depressurize the first space; and a controller controlling operations of the robot mechanism and the first depressurizing apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63265
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16033461', '13195511', '10653491', '14124551', '11784576']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6609199888465658
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4885403211967591
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6436820220815851
- Mean Citation Score: 131.72980520000002
- Max Citation Score: 137.81519
- Similarity Product: 83.6567191021663

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

Dataset: test