PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987243
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["271", "184000"]

Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus includes a processing tray; a conveyance roller for conveying a sheet towards a downstream side in a sheet conveyance direction; a pinch roller for moving between a first position away from the conveyance roller and a second position close to the conveyance roller, and to sandwich the sheet with the conveyance roller at the second position when the sheet is conveyed by the conveyance roller. The apparatus further includes an extruding member for extruding an upstream end of the sheet from the upstream side towards the downstream side to convey the sheet placed on the processing tray. The apparatus additionally includes a controller for conveying the sheet with the extruding member after the sheet is conveyed by the pinch roller and the conveyance roller when the sheet on the processing tray is conveyed to the downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction.

Claim (Index 13):
The sheet processing method according to  claim 11 , further comprising:\n switching a selection between a roller discharge process for conveying the sheet only with the pinch roller and the conveyance roller and a combined discharge process for conveying the sheet with the pinch roller, the conveyance roller and the extruder, wherein the switching is performed based on whether a number of sheets is less than a predetermined value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92308
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15684115', '15903789', '15006342', '15702263', '15210127']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7523387598037407
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5013742513045828
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7272423089538249
- Mean Citation Score: 242.086248
- Max Citation Score: 302.16574
- Similarity Product: 216.8737544525981

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

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