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 3):
An article supply device, comprising:\n a conveyance portion for conveying conveyed objects; a movable block capable of a reciprocal movement between a first position and a second position in a direction intersecting a conveyance direction of the conveyed objects by the conveyance portion; a first pressurization/depressurization portion provided on an end of a movable area on the first position side of the movable block; and a second pressurization/depressurization portion provided on an end of the movable area on the second position side of the movable block, wherein: the movable block comprises a housing portion capable of housing one of the convened objects; in the first position, the housing portion communicates with a downstream end of the conveyance portion and is capable of receiving the conveyed objects; and for the first pressurization/depressurization portion and the second pressurization/depressurization portion, a pressurizing time or a depressurizing time can be controlled independently.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.14
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15555553', '16088834', '13752323', '13956507', '15336856']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7252504614351049
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5030529032791812
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7030307056195124
- Mean Citation Score: 233.611834
- Max Citation Score: 347.54605
- Similarity Product: 281.8611686870633

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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