PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015751
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["198", "419100"]

Abstract:
An article metering assembly for forming of an article group from a downstream most end portion of a bulk flow of conveyed articles is generally provided. The assembly, in one embodiment, is characterized by a robotic arm, a linkage assembly, and an end effector operatively united with the robotic arm and the linkage assembly such that the end effector is fixedly orientated relative to and overhead of the bulk flow of articles throughout a robotic arm motion cycle. Alternately, the assembly is characterized by a robotic arm in operative combination with an end effector, the end effector selectively oriented in relation to articles of a bulk flow of article during travel about its travel path in furtherance of forming an article group from above.

Claim (Index 35):
A robotic article collation and metering method characterized by paired selective compliance assembly robot arms, each arm of the selective compliance assembly robot arms equipped with an end effector, each end effector selectively and alternately engaging a downstream most end portion of a bulk flow of conveyed articles from above in furtherance of forming and releasing an article group from the downstream most end portion of a bulk flow of conveyed articles, the method comprising:\n a. providing a control unit operatively linked with the paired selective compliance assembly robot arms in furtherance of establishing a select travel path for the end effector of the robotic arm and rates of travel for the end effector about the select travel path; b. establishing a select travel path for the end effector of the robotic arm characterized by x and y travel components, the select travel path characterized by a conveyed article ingress portion and a conveyed article egress portion for the end effector, the end effector cooperatively engaged with articles of the bulk flow of conveyed articles between the conveyed article ingress and egress portions; and, c. delimiting an article group from the downstream most end portion of a bulk flow of conveyed articles via introduction of the end effector into a segment of the downstream most end portion of a bulk flow of conveyed articles as a result of end effector travel along the conveyed article ingress portion, an x travel component rate of the end effector along the conveyed article ingress portion substantially matching a bulk flow rate of the bulk flow of conveyed articles, a y component rate of the end effector along the conveyed article ingress portion being a decelerating rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14516
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15130198', '14373187', '13734356', '14218862', '14114590']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6937820843447907
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4996012838239899
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6743640042927106
- Mean Citation Score: 240.532248
- Max Citation Score: 311.13727
- Similarity Product: 234.2601107972598

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