PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15780680
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["700", "213000"]

Abstract:
A conveyance system includes a track, ceiling conveyance vehicles, storage apparatuses, and a conveyance controller configured or programmed to control operations of the ceiling conveyance vehicles and a local vehicle in accordance with an operation mode. The storage apparatus includes a storage plate and the local vehicle that transfer a FOUP between the storage plate and an apparatus port. The conveyance controller switches the operation mode among a first mode prohibiting transfer from the apparatus port to the storage plate by the local vehicle, a second mode prohibiting transfer to the storage plate by any of the ceiling conveyance vehicles and transfer from the storage plate to the apparatus port by the local vehicle, and a third mode that does not restrict transfer by the local vehicle.

Claim (Index 9):
A conveyance system comprising:\n a track; a plurality of conveyance vehicles to travel along the track and convey a conveyed object; a storage apparatus including a storage plate to and from which any of the plurality of conveyance vehicles is capable of delivering the conveyed object and a local vehicle capable of transferring the conveyed object between the storage plate and an apparatus port to and from which any of the plurality of conveyance vehicles is capable of delivering the conveyed object; and a controller configured or programmed to control operations of the plurality of conveyance vehicles and the local vehicle in accordance with an operation mode, the controller being configured or programmed to switch the operation mode among a first mode that prohibits a transfer operation to transfer the conveyed object from the apparatus port to the storage plate by the local vehicle, a second mode that prohibits a transfer operation to transfer the conveyed object to the storage plate by any of the plurality of conveyance vehicles and a transfer operation to transfer the conveyed object from the storage plate to the apparatus port by the local vehicle, and a third mode that allows both the transfer operation to transfer the conveyed object from the apparatus port to the storage plate and the transfer operation to transfer the conveyed object from the storage plate to the apparatus port by the local vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15780685', '15315675', '16080414', '15778661', '13375488']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.350362857819607
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4997809105853541
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3653046630961817
- Mean Citation Score: 179.60108799999998
- Max Citation Score: 254.6317
- Similarity Product: 185.4843067709029

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

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