PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876012
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "218000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure shows an apparatus for the automated removal of workpieces arranged in a bin, said apparatus having a first object recognition device for detecting the workpieces in the bin; a first picker for picking and removing the workpieces from the bin; a controller for evaluating the data of the first object recognition device, for path planning and for controlling the first picker; a buffering station on which the first picker places the workpieces after the removal from the bin and a positioning apparatus that more accurately positions and/or isolates the workpieces starting from the buffering station. Provision is made that the buffering station has at least one tiltable placement area that is tiltable into a slanted position via a tilting mechanism.

Claim (Index 14):
The apparatus in accordance with  claim 1 , wherein\n the positioning apparatus comprises a picker for removing the workpieces from the buffering station, with it being a second picker; and/or wherein the first and/or second pickers is/are moved by a picker arm, with it being a robot arm of a 6-axis robot or a picker arm arranged at a surface portal or linear portal; and/or wherein a plurality of bins with workpieces are arranged in the working region of the first picker from which the first picker picks workpieces, with a supply arrangement having at least two supply regions arranged next to one another for bins being provided, with the first object recognition device being movable over each of the bins and/or supply regions by means of a travel arrangement, and/or with a separation apparatus being provided via which the supply regions are individually separated from the working region of the picker, with a hood being provided that is moved over one of the bins and/or over one of the supply regions; and/or wherein a plurality of different workpieces are handled next to one another.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9403
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13929637', '14733449', '13929643', '13929647', '13929652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4212345929991994
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5089410493757061
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4300052386368501
- Mean Citation Score: 255.50614
- Max Citation Score: 285.3754600000001
- Similarity Product: 210.87687343806988

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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