PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900146
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["294", "185000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an object holding apparatus includes a suction device, a suction pad, and a proximal sensor. The suction device is configured to suction gas. The suction pad is connected to the suction device, and is configured to hold an object based on suction by the suction device. The proximal sensor is configured to detect that the object is in close proximity to the suction pad. The suction device is controlled to perform suction when the proximal sensor detects that the object is in close proximity to the suction pad.

Claim (Index 11):
The object holding apparatus according to  claim 9 , further comprising:\n a vacuum tank connected to the flow path through the directional control valve, wherein the directional control valve is configured to switch between the first state, the second state, and a third state where communication between the flow path and the vacuum tank is allowed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72973
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14551519', '15262289', '15248112', '13195038', '15886883']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6495916232011806
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4719722624716305
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6318296871282256
- Mean Citation Score: 104.992657
- Max Citation Score: 107.410805
- Similarity Product: 70.9562187080887

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

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