PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047713
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["294", "183000"]

Abstract:
A system is disclosed for providing dynamic vacuum control to an end effector of an articulated arm. The system includes a first vacuum source for providing a first vacuum pressure with a first maximum air flow rate, and a second vacuum source for providing a second vacuum pressure with a second maximum air flow rate, wherein the second vacuum pressure is higher than the first vacuum pressure and wherein the second maximum air flow rate is greater than the first maximum air flow rate.

Claim (Index 30):
A method of providing a dynamic vacuum source for an end effector, said method comprising the steps of:\n (a) providing at the end effector a first vacuum from a first vacuum source that includes a compressor, said first vacuum having first vacuum pressure and a first vacuum flow rate; and (b) switching the dynamic vacuum source to provide at the end effector a second vacuum from a second vacuum source that includes a blower, said second vacuum having a second vacuum pressure and a second vacuum flow rate, and second vacuum pressure being higher than the first vacuum pressure, and the second vacuum flow rate being greater than the first vacuum flow rate, wherein the first vacuum source and the second vacuum source are provided by a multi-stage ejector that employs a non-return valve as a selection mechanism to select between the first vacuum source and the second vacuum source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44444
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15259939', '15260014', '15961275', '15248379', '15371921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7224433884612644
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5200091307807073
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7021999626932087
- Mean Citation Score: 260.338038
- Max Citation Score: 355.19574
- Similarity Product: 334.7793932168627

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

Dataset: test