PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886887
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["414", "730000"]

Abstract:
A component is placed by a nozzle of a placing head, which holds the component by means of a negative pressure. A flow path switcher that selectively connects a suction path of the nozzle to a negative pressure source and a positive pressure source is included. During component placement, the flow path switcher switches the nozzle to a positive pressure flow path from a negative pressure flow path to put the nozzle under a positive pressure and detaches the component from the nozzle. Before detection of the component is performed by a component detector, the flow path switcher connects the suction path of the nozzle to the negative pressure flow path to put the suction path under a negative pressure. The component detector that detects the component at a tip of the nozzle is included.

Claim (Index 1):
A component placing device comprising:\n a placing head that has a nozzle of which a suction path is put under a negative pressure to hold a component, and places the component held by the nozzle at a predetermined placement position on a workpiece; a flow path switcher that selectively connects the suction path to a negative pressure flow path leading to a negative pressure source and a positive pressure flow path leading to a positive pressure source; and a component detector that detects the component which is at a tip of the nozzle, wherein during component placement, the flow path switcher switches the suction path of the nozzle to a state connected to the positive pressure flow path from a state connected to the negative pressure flow path to put the suction path under a positive pressure, such that the component is detached from the nozzle, and connects the suction path to the negative pressure flow path to put the suction path under a negative pressure before detection of the component is performed by the component detector, and in a case where a take-away component, which remains in a state of being attached to the nozzle without being detached from the nozzle in the component placement, is detected by the component detector, the take-away component is discarded at a predetermined component collection position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.17778
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15886883', '15271202', '14906827', '15297614', '15511724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8393147842893358
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.537106678907292
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8090939737511315
- Mean Citation Score: 243.86628
- Max Citation Score: 406.3503
- Similarity Product: 319.34667887177466

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

Dataset: test