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 13):
A soft robotic grasping system for grasping an article, comprising:\n a gripper hub; a plurality of soft robotic fingers, each soft robotic finger including an elastomeric outer surface surrounding an internal void, and each soft robotic finger being configured to curl in a first degree of freedom when the finger actuator applies the pressure change within the internal voids; a plurality of linkages, each linkage respectively connecting a soft robotic finger to the hub, each linkage being configured to guide in a second degree of freedom to change a pose of the connected soft robotic finger relative to the hub; a plurality of linkage actuators configured to cause the linkages to move, each linkage actuator respectively connected to one of the linkages; and a camera having a field of view configured to observe the soft robotic fingers in any of an ungrasped, article grasping, and empty grasping state; and a controller connected to the camera, the controller configured to compare an observation of the soft robotic fingers to at least one reference state to determine whether the article is successfully grasped.

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): 0.7417517760703831
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6471969226343819
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.732296290726783
- Mean Citation Score: 317.4463580000001
- Max Citation Score: 649.27325
- Similarity Product: 603.6781131704748

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

Dataset: test