PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764385
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["414", "752100"]

Abstract:
An object is to provide a nozzle management device and a control method of a nozzle management device capable of shortening a time required for an exchange operation of suction nozzles. In an exchange operation, a control device of the nozzle management device transfers some of multiple suction nozzles serving as storage targets to an empty first socket, and thereafter, controls an operation of a nozzle transfer device so as to alternately and repeatedly perform a loading operation for transferring the suction nozzle designated corresponding to a socket of the nozzle station which is emptied out by the transferred suction nozzle, from the pallet, and an unloading operation for transferring the suction nozzles serving as the storage targets from the nozzle station to the socket which is emptied out by the loading operation.

Claim (Index 1):
A nozzle management device comprising:\n a pallet that stores suction nozzles used for a component mounting machine; a nozzle station installation device that targets a nozzle station which is detachably installed in the component mounting machine and which holds a plurality of the suction nozzles, and that installs the nozzle station detached from the component mounting machine; a nozzle transfer device that transfers the suction nozzles between the pallet and the nozzle station installed in the nozzle station installation device; and a control device that controls an operation of the nozzle transfer device in accordance with an operation mode, wherein the pallet and the nozzle station respectively have a plurality of sockets capable of holding the suction nozzles by adopting a predetermined posture, wherein the operation mode includes an exchange operation for transferring the plurality of the suction nozzles serving as storage targets from the nozzle station to the pallet, and for transferring the plurality of the suction nozzles which are respectively designated corresponding to the sockets of the nozzle station from the pallet, wherein in the exchange operation, the control device transfers some of the plurality of the suction nozzles serving as the storage targets to a vacant first socket secured in a movable range of the nozzle transfer device, wherein thereafter, the control device controls the operation of the nozzle transfer device so as to alternately and repeatedly perform a loading operation for transferring the suction nozzle designated corresponding to the socket of the nozzle station which is emptied out by the transferred suction nozzle, from the pallet, and an unloading operation for transferring some of the plurality of the suction nozzles serving as the storage targets from the nozzle station to the socket of the pallet which is emptied out by the loading operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45614
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15129644', '14895756', '10541800', '15739887', '15522025']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.840131247558219
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.461902388519937
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8023083616543908
- Mean Citation Score: 195.578108
- Max Citation Score: 205.47755
- Similarity Product: 173.6362025114119

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

Dataset: test