PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16222985
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["414", "744200"]

Abstract:
A hermetically sealed multi-axis articulated arm apparatus for use within a sealable isolator chamber comprises a rotational shaft that passes through an opening in the chamber, a sealing member disposed within the chamber for sealing the shaft to an inner surface of the chamber, a plurality of interconnected hermetically sealed arm segments, operably attached to the linear motion shaft; an end effector operably attached to a terminal arm segment among the plurality of arm segments, and at least one fully enclosed drive system for driving and controlling the shaft and the plurality of arm segments. The linear motion shaft may have a sealing member in the form of a bellows. The materials for the parts of the apparatus exposed to the atmosphere of the chamber are compatible with an aseptic and cleanable environment and the surfaces of the arm segments are shaped to avoid pooling of contaminants.

Claim (Index 1):
A hermetically sealed multi-axis articulated arm apparatus for use within a sealable isolator chamber, the apparatus comprising:\n a shaft having a rotational axis, wherein the shaft passes through an opening in the sealable isolator chamber and is configured to rotate around the axis and is configured to move linearly along the axis; a sealing member, including:\n a mounting surface configured for mounting the sealing member on and hermetically sealing it to an inner surface of the sealable isolator chamber, wherein the mounting surface and the inner surface continuously surround the opening in the sealable isolator chamber, \n a shaft sealing surface defined by the sealing member, which surrounds and seals the shaft, \n a plurality of interconnected hermetically sealed arm segments, wherein one of the plurality of arm segments is a terminal arm segment, and one of the plurality of arm segments is a first arm segment operably attached to the linear motion shaft; an end effector attached to the terminal arm segment; and at least one drive system for driving and controlling the shaft and the plurality of arm segments, with the drive system being fully enclosed within the articulated arm apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03947
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13716274', '12072838', '15787552', '11178830', '13902538']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.811970058124539
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824061051198503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7790136628240701
- Mean Citation Score: 170.05131
- Max Citation Score: 179.98032
- Similarity Product: 123.44072978530885

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

Dataset: test