PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16057879
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["270", "058120"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus comprises a standby section configured to buffer a sheet; a processing section configured to receive sheets supplied from the standby section and execute a post processing on the sheets; a rotational shaft configured to rotate around an axis of rotation; a paddle arranged in the rotational shaft and configured to contact the sheet and move the sheets by rotating with the rotational shaft, the paddle being configured to slide the sheets on the processing section to a stopper for aligning the sheets; and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the rotational shaft to rotate the paddle at a first speed, and control the rotational speed of the rotational shaft to rotate the paddle at a second speed slower than the first speed while the paddle contacts the sheets on the processing section for aligning.

Claim (Index 8):
A sheet processing method, comprising:\n forming an image on a sheet by a printer; conveying the sheet from the printer; receiving a plurality of sheets on a processing section; rotating a paddle around an axis of rotation at a first speed; and rotating the paddle at a second speed slower than the first speed while the paddle contacts the sheets on the processing section for aligning by rotating with the axis of rotation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15218688', '15218700', '15437154', '15385852', '15218684']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7002393895371342
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4909703202218932
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6793124826056101
- Mean Citation Score: 256.67792000000003
- Max Citation Score: 347.77167000000014
- Similarity Product: 299.6041207861931

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