PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982283
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["271", "003130"]

Abstract:
A stacking apparatus, comprising a first stacking unit, for stacking sheets of a first size, configured to move vertically between an upper limit position and a lower limit position, and a second stacking unit for stacking sheets of a second size larger than the first size in cooperation with the first stacking unit, the second stacking unit being jointed to the first stacking unit at a predetermined position, moving vertically together with the first stacking unit while being jointed to the first stacking unit above the predetermined position, and being released from a joint to the first stacking unit below the predetermined position.

Claim (Index 1):
A stacking apparatus comprising:\n a first stacking unit configured to move up and down between an upper limit position capable of rising and a lower limit position capable of lowering, and configured to stack sheets of a first size; and a second stacking unit configured to be jointed to the first stacking unit at a predetermined position in an up-and-down movement direction of the first stacking unit, the second stacking unit being moved up and down together with the first stacking unit while being jointed to the first stacking unit in a case where the first stacking unit is located between the predetermined position and the upper limit position, and being released from a joint to the first stacking unit in a case where the first stacking unit is located below the predetermined position, wherein the second stacking unit is configured to stack sheets of a second size larger than the first size in cooperation with the first stacking unit in the range from the predetermined position to the upper limit position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5814
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14667966', '15184026', '14558623', '13925055', '15946074']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7010651102455928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774079388217702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6786993931032106
- Mean Citation Score: 186.039616
- Max Citation Score: 197.13655
- Similarity Product: 143.93736885858775

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

Dataset: test