PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762953
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["700", "218000"]

Abstract:
An article conveyance system includes a controller and a conveyance device. The controller includes: a storage section storing information concerning a position of a housing section stored in a shelf; a housing-section retrieving section retrieving, based on the information concerning the position of the housing section, housing positions of a plurality of the housing sections, which are picking targets, in the shelf; a route generating section generating a route that makes rounds of positions of the housing sections retrieved by the housing-section retrieving section; and a transmitting section transmitting information concerning the generated route and the housing positions of the housing sections to the conveyance device. The conveyance device includes: an acquiring section acquiring the plurality of housing sections based on the housing positions of the housing sections while autonomously moving according to the information concerning the route; and a loading section loading the acquired plurality of housing sections.

Claim (Index 15):
An article conveyance method comprising:\n causing a controller to\n store information concerning a position of a housing section stored in a shelf, \n retrieve, based on the information concerning the position of the housing section, housing positions of a plurality of the housing sections, which are set as picking targets, in the shelf \n generate a route that makes rounds of the retrieved positions of the housing sections, and \n transmit information concerning the generated route and the housing positions of the housing sections to a conveyance device; and \n causing the conveyance device to\n acquire the plurality of housing sections based on the housing positions of the housing sections while autonomously moving according to the information concerning the route, and \n load the acquired plurality of housing sections.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.94545
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14118907', '13177630', '11222739', '11472279', '13375488']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3985803709109251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4695693947464034
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4056792732944729
- Mean Citation Score: 168.334276
- Max Citation Score: 171.76793
- Similarity Product: 123.750816722849

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