PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903715
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["271", "306000"]

Abstract:
A recording material processing apparatus includes: a first stacking unit configured to stack a recording material; a second stacking unit provided on a downstream side of the first stacking unit in a conveyance direction of the recording material; an alignment unit configured to align the recording material stacked in the first stacking unit before the recording material is discharged to the second stacking unit; and a control unit configured to perform control of discharging the recording material to the second stacking unit by switching between first control not to align the recording material by the alignment unit and second control to align the recording material by the alignment unit.

Claim (Index 25):
A recording material processing apparatus comprising:\n a conveyance unit configured to convey a recording material; an alignment unit including a first alignment member and a second alignment member, the first alignment member and the second alignment member being configured to support the recording material conveyed by the conveyance unit, wherein at least the first alignment member approaches the second alignment member to align the supported recording material in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording material; a stacking unit on which the recording material is stacked, wherein the supported recording material is discharged to the stacking unit when at least the first alignment member separates from the second alignment member; and a control unit configured to execute a second control after executing a first control repeatedly, wherein, in a case where the control unit executes the first control, the control unit controls the alignment unit to support a first recording material conveyed by the conveyance unit, to align the first recording material in the direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction, and to not discharge the first recording material to the stacking unit, and wherein, in a case where the control unit executes the second control, the control unit controls the alignment unit to support a second recording material conveyed by the conveyance unit, the second recording material being stacked over the first recording material, not to align the second recording material in the direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction, and to discharge the first recording material and the second recording material to the stacking unit together.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78049
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14967681', '13160341', '12842891', '13734297', '11727949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7464368510663242
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5018913357101694
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7219822995307087
- Mean Citation Score: 226.43663
- Max Citation Score: 332.10138
- Similarity Product: 327.6231068643201

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

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