PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059206
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["294", "106000"]

Abstract:
A tendon-driven robotic gripper is disclosed for performing fingertip and enveloping grasps. One embodiment comprises two fingers, each with two links, and is actuated using a single active tendon. During unobstructed closing, the distal links remain parallel, creating exact fingertip grasps. Conversely, if the proximal links are stopped by contact with an object, the distal links start flexing, creating a stable enveloping grasp. The route of the active tendon and the parameters of the springs providing passive extension forces are optimized in order to achieve this behavior. An additional passive tendon is disclosed that may be used as a constraint preventing the gripper from entering undesirable parts of the joint workspace. A method for optimizing the dimensions of the links in order to achieve enveloping grasps of a large range of objects is disclosed and applied to a set of common household objects.

Claim (Index 1):
A robotic system, comprising:\n a motor pack, the motor pack comprising:\n housing; \n an electric motor housed by the housing; \n an actuation piston fitting; \n a transmission assembly that drivingly couples the electric motor to the piston fitting to cause the actuation piston fitting to alternatively insert and retract, and \n a tool-less coupling mechanism where at least a first kinematic assembly is detachably coupleable to the motor pack to be driven thereby without any wires or electrical contacts or tools.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72527
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14618629', '14456450', '15510794', '14849729', '12447939']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7408923096701935
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5823123807470449
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7250343167778787
- Mean Citation Score: 324.92989
- Max Citation Score: 558.96796
- Similarity Product: 396.92001387117625

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