PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160604
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["294", "185000"]

Abstract:
Exemplary embodiments relate to unique structures for robotic end-of-arm-tools (EOATs). According to some embodiments, two or more fingers or actuators may be present on an EOAT, and the actuators may be configured to move (together or separately) to adjust the spacing between the actuators. Some aspects involve techniques for extending and/or retracting a vacuum cup present on the EOAT. Further embodiments, which may be used separately or in conjunction with the previously-described embodiments, apply a secondary inner grip pad to provide a secondary gripping mode for the EOAT. These embodiments may be particularly advantageous when the actuators are soft robotic actuators and the inner grip pad is a relatively more rigid structure than the actuators.

Claim (Index 9):
A soft robotic grasping system, comprising:\n a gripper hub having an axial center region about an axial center line, a plurality of grasping directions being radially symmetric about the axial center line, and a plurality of accessory directions being defined between adjacent grasping directions; a finger actuator that applies a pressure change; a plurality of soft robotic fingers, each soft robotic finger being arranged along a grasping direction and including an elastomeric outer surface surrounding an internal void, and each soft robotic finger being configured to curl in a first degree of freedom along the grasping direction when the finger actuator applies the pressure change within the internal void; a first accessory acting along the axial center line being positioned in the axial center region; and a second accessory acting parallel to the axial center line being positioned along an accessory direction adjacent the axial center region, wherein the first and second accessories are selected from a vacuum chuck extendible in a direction parallel to the axial center line, a camera having an optical axis extending in a direction parallel to the axial center line, and a range finder having a ranging axis extending in a direction parallel to the axial center line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77778
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16160580', '15194283', '14944999', '15049815', '15411212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7434121729619129
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6418202915229688
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7332529848180185
- Mean Citation Score: 317.4463580000001
- Max Citation Score: 649.27325
- Similarity Product: 586.0010183508098

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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