PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15776995
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["355", "072000"]

Abstract:
A positioning device comprising an object table and a positioning module configured to position the object table. The positioning module comprises a first positioning module member configured to hold the object table, a second positioning module member configured to support the first positioning module member, and a support frame configured to support the second positioning module member. The positioning module also includes one or more actuators, a position measurement system configured to measure a position of the object table, and a control unit configured to control a position of the object table based on the measured position of the object table. The control unit is further configured to control a vertical position of the second position module member so as to maintain a top surface of the second positioning module member substantially parallel to a bottom surface of the first positioning module member.

Claim (Index 5):
A positioning device configured to position an object, the positioning device comprising:\n an object table configured to hold the object; a positioning module configured to position the object table, the positioning module comprising a top module and a bottom module; the top module comprising:\n a first top module member configured to hold the object table; \n a second top module member configured to co-operate with the first top module member to generate a first force on the object table; \n the bottom module comprising:\n at least one actuator; \n a first bottom module member onto which the second top module member is displaceably mounted by means of the at least one actuator; at least one actuator being configured to displace move the second top module member in a vertical direction relative to the first bottom module member; \n a second bottom module member configured to support the first bottom module member and to co-operate with the first bottom module member to generate a second force on the first top module member; \n a support frame configured to support the second bottom module member; a position measurement system configured to measure a position of the object table with respect to a reference frame; a control unit configured to control a position of the object table by providing an object table control signal to the positioning module to generate the first force and the second force, based on the measured position of the object table and a set point for the object table; wherein the control unit is further configured to control a vertical position of the second top module member by providing an actuator control signal to the at least one actuator, in order to maintain the second top module member within the operating range of the first top module member in the vertical direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13871328', '15003768', '15077439', '13686854', '15027986']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6595655586731962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4689520942873759
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6405042122346142
- Mean Citation Score: 210.3601
- Max Citation Score: 214.52779
- Similarity Product: 177.56928467455865

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