PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15778661
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["701", "025000"]

Abstract:
A track in a transport system includes a standby section associated with a certain processing apparatus to allow a transport vehicle to wait. When determining a transport request to transport a FOUP to a load port of the certain processing apparatus exists, the controller allocates, to the transport vehicle, a first transport command to transport the FOUP to the standby section. When reaching the standby section, the transport vehicle waits while holding the FOUP. Subsequently, when determining that the FOUP is transportable to the load port of the certain processing apparatus, the controller allocates, to the transport vehicle, a second transport command to transport the FOUP to the load port of the certain processing apparatus.

Claim (Index 16):
A transport method performed in a transport system including a track, a plurality of transport vehicles to travel along the track and transport an object to a load port of each of a plurality of processing apparatuses, and a controller configured or programmed to communicate with each of the plurality of transport vehicles and control operation of each of the plurality of transport vehicles, the track being provided with a standby section associated with a certain processing apparatus of the plurality of processing apparatuses to allow a certain transport vehicle of the plurality of transport vehicles to wait, the transport method comprising:\n the controller allocating to the certain transport vehicle a first transport command to transport the object to the standby section when determining that there exists a transport request to transport the object to a load port of the certain processing apparatus; the certain transport vehicle to which the first transport command has been allocated waiting in the standby section while holding the object when reaching the standby section; and the controller allocating to the certain transport vehicle to which the first transport command has been allocated a second transport command to transport the object to the load port of the certain processing apparatus, when determining that the object is transportable to the load port of the certain processing apparatus, after allocating the first transport command to the certain transport vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95349
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15776796', '15780685', '15780680', '14404661', '15315675']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4257525222856137
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4802843092774058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4312057009847929
- Mean Citation Score: 184.73704
- Max Citation Score: 225.0314
- Similarity Product: 175.10655249158145

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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