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 16):
A soft robotic grasping system for grasping an article, comprising:\n a finger actuator that applies a pressure change; 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 the connected soft robotic finger in a second degree of freedom to change a pose of the connected soft robotic finger relative to the hub; a plurality of grip pads, each grip pad respectively connected to a translating member of a linkage, each grip pad being configured to apply a clamping force when the translating member is moved; a plurality of linkage actuators configured to cause the linkages to move, each linkage actuator respectively connected to one of the linkages; and a controller configured to, in a first mode, activate the linkage actuators to cause the translating members of the linkages to move to apply the clamping force to a first article, and in a second mode, activate the finger actuator to cause the soft robotic fingers to curl to apply a grasping force to a second article.

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): 0.7408279262795685
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6501628585631285
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7317614195079245
- Mean Citation Score: 317.4463580000001
- Max Citation Score: 649.27325
- Similarity Product: 613.4819085333347

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

Dataset: test