PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939907
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "227000"]

Abstract:
A gravity-assisted registration system suited to use in a printing device includes a transport member with a surface on which an associated sheet is translated in a process direction. The surface defines an angle with respect to horizontal in a cross-process direction. A registration wall, adjacent a lower end of the surface, defines a registration edge for registering the sheet. A drive mechanism drives at least one rotation mechanism, for translating sheet in the process direction, each rotation mechanism including at least one drive member with an axis of rotation parallel to the surface in the cross-process direction, Each drive member includes a sliding mechanism, at a periphery of the drive member, enabling the sheet to slide, under gravity, on the surface, toward the registration wall into an alignment position, in contact with the registration wall.

Claim (Index 19):
A printing system comprising:\n a marking device which applies a marking material to associated sheets of print media; a sheet transport system which transports the sheets in a process direction to the marking device, the sheet transport system including a gravity-assisted registration system comprising:\n a transport member including a surface on which the sheets are translated in the process direction, the surface defining an angle with respect to horizontal in a cross-process direction of at least 1 degree; \n a registration wall adjacent a lower end of the surface which defines a registration edge for registering the sheets; \n a drive mechanism; and \n at least one rotation mechanism, each rotation mechanism including:\n at least one first rotatable member, driven by the drive mechanism, the first rotatable member being positioned above the sheet, with an axis of rotation parallel to the surface in the cross-process direction, which translates the sheets in the process direction, each drive member including a sliding mechanism, at a periphery of the drive member, enabling each of the sheets to slide, under gravity, on the surface, toward the registration wall into an alignment position, in contact with the registration wall, and \n at least one second rotatable member, positioned below the sheet to provide a nip with one of the at least one first rotatable members, and having an axis of rotation parallel to the surface in the cross-process direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28788
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14246615', '11525146', '11010544', '11418704', '15939809']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7405114118404914
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4764613311606988
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7141064037725122
- Mean Citation Score: 193.78182
- Max Citation Score: 206.28899
- Similarity Product: 145.00437809656978

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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