PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16066666
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["198", "617000"]

Abstract:
This article supply method comprises: a step for introducing, using a movable block capable of reciprocating between a first position and a second position, a single object to be conveyed into a housing portion formed on the movable block when the movable block is in the first position; a forward step for pressing the movable block from the first position in a range of motion of the movable block while vacuum-sucking the movable block from the second position in the range of motion of the movable block, and then continuing the vacuum-sucking from the second position and moving the movable block to the second position; a step for discharging the object to be conveyed from the housing portion when the movable block is in the second position; and a return step for vacuum-sucking the movable block from the first position and moving the movable block to the first position.

Claim (Index 4):
The article supply device according to  claim 3 , wherein\n the housing portion has, on its side wall surface or bottom surface, an opening of a vent portion that communicates with the second pressurization/depressurization portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.14
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15555553', '16088834', '13752323', '13956507', '15336856']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7482605187298605
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.505114849429672
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7239459517998417
- Mean Citation Score: 233.611834
- Max Citation Score: 347.54605
- Similarity Product: 286.19084441028235

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

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