PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16060813
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "420000"]

Abstract:
A speaker and like manufactured item manufacturing system, apparatus and method for aligning speaker components regardless of feature size to a common centering datum for placement. A speaker motor assembly may be aligned based on datum of a basket/washer subassembly, wherein remaining components are coupled, aligned and adhered according to the same datum, thus increasing concentricity, alignment, and orthogonality among components and installations. Speaker suspension components may likewise be coupled using the same datum. Specialized alignment mechanisms, such as a centering collet and a mechanical gripper, may be also be provided to align speaker components for placement and adhesion, and adhesives may be robotically controlled based on the aforementioned datum.

Claim (Index 36):
A method for operating a manufacturing system for assembling speaker components, comprising:\n securing a first speaker component via a plurality of active mechanical alignment mechanisms comprising at least a centering fixture and a mechanical gripper; aligning to a center axis, using at least one of the plurality of active mechanical alignment mechanisms, of the secured first speaker component; picking, via the mechanical gripper comprising a plurality of arms, each of one or more other speaker components; aligning, via at least one of the plurality of active mechanical alignment mechanisms and at least in relation to the center axis, each of the one or more speaker components relative to the secured first speaker component, successively and automatically securing each of the picked one or more speaker components over the secured first speaker component in accordance with the determined center axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80882
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10788827', '10428515', '10781128', '11105779', '14769974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6380786846697748
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5082787464721849
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6250986908500158
- Mean Citation Score: 184.708724
- Max Citation Score: 222.13438
- Similarity Product: 141.1470575699091

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