PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044965
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["271", "003020"]

Abstract:
It is desirable to improve alignment of sheets discharged to a stack tray without increasing the size and cost of the apparatus. A stacking portion which is sloped so that a downstream side is higher than an upstream side in a sheet conveyance direction and on which a sheet discharged by a discharging portion is stacked and a plurality of rotation members which protrudes from an upper face of the stacking portion are provided. At least one of the plurality of rotation members rotates only in a direction opposite to the sheet conveyance direction.

Claim (Index 8):
The sheet stacking apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the rotation members are disposed in the sheet conveyance direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73214
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12842891', '10940758', '13283239', '12490516', '11103589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7843165311172161
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4761842912834702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7535033071338415
- Mean Citation Score: 240.8585
- Max Citation Score: 244.81807
- Similarity Product: 202.2750391365272

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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