PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16360877
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["294", "186000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a gripping tool includes a gripper. The gripper is flexible. A plurality of granular materials is provided in an interior of the gripper. The gripping tool grips a workpiece by depressurizing the interior of the gripper in a state in which the gripper is caused to contact the workpiece. A diameter of at least a portion of the granular materials is less than 1774 μm.

Claim (Index 17):
The method according to  claim 16 , wherein\n the method evaluates the gripping performance of the gripping tool, the gripper includes a first portion contacting the object, and a second portion opposing the first portion, the first portion and the second portion are flexible, the granular materials is provided in a first space between the first portion and the second portion, an outer perimeter of the first portion and an outer perimeter of the second portion are held by a holder, the gripping tool grips the object by depressurizing the first space in a state in which the first portion is deformed by being caused to contact the object, and when the first portion is deformed by being caused to contact the object, the second portion is more deformable than the holder in a first direction, the first direction being from the first portion toward the second portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10653491', '16033461', '13382386', '13171500', '15122817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7273839052805621
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4843271555345218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7030782303059581
- Mean Citation Score: 132.75243400000002
- Max Citation Score: 135.66988
- Similarity Product: 82.6622450916791

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