PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15765332
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "098000"]

Abstract:
A guide member ( 14 ) has an upper surface assisting conveyance of workpieces ( 44 ) mounted on a table ( 12 ) and is arranged downstream of the table ( 12 ) in a workpiece conveyance direction. A belt drive mechanism ( 16 ) has pulleys ( 26 a  to  26 d , 28 a  to  28 b ), and endless belts ( 32 a  to  32 d ) wound around these pulleys, and is arranged above the table ( 12 ) and the guide member ( 14 ) so as to stride over the table ( 12 ) and the guide member ( 14 ). A first opening portion is formed on a bottom portion of the belt drive mechanism ( 16 ) to generate an upward suction force. A second opening portion is formed on the upper surface of the guide member ( 14 ) to generate a downward suction force. A magnitude of the suction force generated in the first opening portion exceeds a magnitude of the suction force generated in the second opening portion.

Claim (Index 1):
A workpiece conveying apparatus, comprising: a table on which sheet-form workpieces are mounted in a stacked state;\n a guide member which has an upper surface assisting a conveyance of said workpieces and which is arranged downstream of said table in a workpiece conveyance direction; and a belt drive mechanism which has a plurality of pulleys each extending in a direction orthogonal to both said workpiece conveyance direction and an up-and-down direction and an endless belt wound around said plurality of pulleys, and which is arranged above said table and said guide member so as to stride over said table and said guide member, wherein a first opening portion which generates an upward first suction force is formed on a bottom portion of said belt drive mechanism, a second opening portion which generates a downward second suction force is formed on the upper surface of said guide member, a magnitude of said first suction force exceeds a magnitude of said second suction force and the upper surface of said guide member is provided with a suppressing portion which suppresses positional displacement of the workpiece adhered to the upper surface by said second suction force.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87692
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11560364', '11905676', '12071660', '11373262', '11889257']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7058755430655433
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4912970749188626
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6844176962508753
- Mean Citation Score: 198.17345
- Max Citation Score: 207.01553
- Similarity Product: 132.87294150309205

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

Dataset: test