PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006877
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["270", "058170"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus comprises a processing tray, a longitudinal alignment mechanism, a horizontal alignment mechanism and an interlocking mechanism. The processing tray can stack a sheet. The longitudinal alignment mechanism includes a rotatable paddle. The longitudinal alignment mechanism can align the sheets stacked on the processing tray in a sheet conveyance direction. The horizontal alignment mechanism includes a horizontal alignment plate movable in a sheet width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction. The horizontal alignment mechanism can align the sheets placed on the processing tray in the sheet width direction. The interlocking mechanism interlocks the paddle in the sheet width direction in synchronization with the movement of the horizontal alignment plate in the sheet width direction.

Claim (Index 1):
A sheet processing apparatus, comprising:\n a processing tray to stack a sheet; a shaft extending in a sheet width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction; a rotatable paddle rotatable with the shaft and movable in the axial direction of the shaft, which align the sheets stacked on the processing tray in a sheet conveyance direction; a horizontal alignment plate movable parallel to the axial orientation of the shaft, which align the sheets stacked on the processing tray in the sheet width direction; and a regulating section which is attached to the horizontal alignment plate and restrict a position of the paddle in the axial direction of the shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09302
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15385852', '15903789', '11634156', '15218684', '15560289']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6791725229843195
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4311940177120102
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6543746724570886
- Mean Citation Score: 155.48928999999995
- Max Citation Score: 163.33131
- Similarity Product: 126.33756097245096

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

Dataset: test