PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16146497
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["198", "435000"]

Abstract:
The lifting and lowering apparatus includes a plurality of shelf members  6  and  7  and a lifting and lowering mechanism  8 . The shelf members  6  and  7  respectively include placing tables A and B positioned on different heights, and each placing table is provided with a conveying unit  10 . The shelf members  6  and  7  are lifted and lowered by the lifting and lowering mechanism  8 , whereby the placing table A (B) of the shelf member  6  ( 7 ) which is one of the shelf members  6  and  7  is adjusted to be on the same height as the placing table B (A) of the other shelf member  7  ( 6 ), and with this state, an object is transferred from the placing table of one of the shelf members to the placing table of the other shelf member. The shelf members  6  and  7  are again lifted and lowered to adjust the placing table B (A) of the other shelf member  7  ( 6 ) to be on the same height as the placing table A (B) which belongs to the shelf member  6  ( 7 ) and which is positioned on a different height, returns the object to the shelf member  6  ( 7 ), and transfers the object to the placing table A (B) which is positioned on a different height from the previous placing table A (B).

Claim (Index 2):
A lifting and lowering apparatus comprising:\n a first shelf member; a second shelf member disposed adjacent to the first shelf member; and a lifting and lowering mechanism that lifts and lowers at least one of the first and the second shelf members, the first shelf member including a plurality of first placing tables having a different height, the second shelf member including a plurality of second placing tables having a different height, and each of the first and the second shelf members including a conveying unit that conveys an object in both a normal direction and a reverse direction, wherein the lifting and lowering apparatus is capable of adjusting a height of one of the first placing tables to a height of one of the second placing tables to transfer and place the object from the one of the first placing tables to the one of the second placing tables by the conveying unit, wherein the lifting and lowering apparatus is further capable of lifting or lowering the first or the second shelf member to adjust a height of the one of the second placing tables to a height of another of the first placing tables, thereby transferring and placing the object that has been placed on the one of the second placing tables to the another of the first placing tables by the conveying unit, and wherein the lifting and lowering apparatus is capable of repeating transference of the object between the first and the second shelf members according to necessity to transfer the object to a desired height.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.90769
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15729892', '12730667', '12920675', '15533723', '14956953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7362721181805753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4655733891871913
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7092022452812369
- Mean Citation Score: 190.857796
- Max Citation Score: 205.3402
- Similarity Product: 146.25573485791685

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

Dataset: test