PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059155
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 an axis of rotation; a standby section configured to buffer a sheet; a processing section configured to execute a post processing on sheets moved from the standby section; a first paddle configured to be mounted in the axis of rotation and be rotated around the axis of rotation to contact with the sheet supplied from the standby section to draw the sheet into a stopper; and a second paddle configured to be mounted in the axis of rotation at a predetermined angle with respect to the first paddle and draw the sheet into the stopper after the first paddle is separated from the sheet after a drawing-in operation of the sheet by the first paddle.

Claim (Index 8):
A sheet processing method, comprising:\n supplying sheets one by one; forming an image on the sheets fed from the sheet feed section; conveying the sheets from the printer section; receiving a plurality of sheets on a processing section; rotating a first paddle around an axis of rotation to contact with a top of the sheets on the processing section to draw the sheets into a stopper; and further drawing the sheet into the stopper after the first paddle is separated from the sheet using a second paddle mounted in the axis of rotation at a predetermined angle with respect to the first paddle, wherein drawing the sheet to the stopper by the first paddle and the second paddle is executed while the first paddle makes one rotation around the axis of rotation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51923
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15218700', '15218688', '15437154', '15385852', '13554098']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6455265063020083
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4660689129558079
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6275807469673883
- Mean Citation Score: 225.93782
- Max Citation Score: 280.98203
- Similarity Product: 256.77829464798566

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