PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15765407
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["029", "281500"]

Abstract:
A feed/clamp apparatus includes a feed vise mechanism provided upstream from a cutting position, and a downstream vise mechanism provided just downstream from the cutting position. The feed vise mechanism includes first/second feed vise jaws, a downstream moving cylinder for moving the first feed vise jaw, and a downstream shifting cylinder for shifting the second feed vise jaw. The downstream vise mechanism includes first/second downstream vise jaws, a downstream moving cylinder for moving the first downstream vise jaw, and a downstream shifting cylinder for shifting a second downstream vise jaw. A vise surface of the second downstream vise jaw is located on one side of the vise reference position when the downstream shifting cylinder is located its stroke end on the one side. A thrust force of the downstream shifting cylinder toward the one side is made equal to a thrust force of the downstream moving cylinder toward another side.

Claim (Index 1):
A workpiece feed/clamp apparatus that is used in a cutting machine for cutting a cut position of a workpiece set at a cut position on a feed direction and that feeds the workpiece in the feed direction and then fixes the workpiece on a base of the cutting machine, the apparatus comprising:\n a feed vise mechanism that is provided on an upstream side of the cutting position movably in the feed direction and includes a pair of feed vise jaws that face to each other in a width direction perpendicular to the feed direction and clamp the workpiece, a feed vise moving cylinder that moves a first of the feed vise jaws in the width direction, and a feed vise shifting cylinder that shifts a second of the feed vise jaws in the width direction; and a downstream main vise mechanism that is provided just on a downstream side of the cutting position and includes a pair of downstream main vise jaws that face to each other in the width direction and clamp a portion correspondent to a product in the workpiece, a downstream main moving cylinder that moves a first of the downstream main vise jaws in the width direction, and a downstream main shifting cylinder that shifts a second of the downstream main vise jaws in the width direction, wherein a vise surface wherein a thrust force of the downstream main shifting cylinder toward the one side in the width direction is made equal to a thrust force of the downstream main moving cylinder toward another side in the width direction., wherein a position in the feed width direction where a vise surface of the second of the downstream main vise jaws is located when the downstream main shifting cylinder reaches a stroke end on an extended side thereof serves as a vise reference position, and wherein, if a leading end portion of the workpiece curves, the vise surface of the second of the downstream main vise jaws is located at the one side or the other side of the vise reference position in the feed width direction according to a curvature of the leading end portion of the workpiece when the portion correspondent to the product in the workpiece is clamped by cooperation of the pair of downstream main vise jaws.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.33333
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14904815', '13498352', '10729870', '11528075', '12936216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8728729053890091
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4901931544103805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8346049302911462
- Mean Citation Score: 236.870858
- Max Citation Score: 265.6051
- Similarity Product: 226.5726715585172

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