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 10):
The apparatus according to  claim 8 , further comprising:\n a width guide unit configured to guide side edges in a second direction crossing the first direction of the sheets stacked on the first stacking unit or on the first stacking unit and the second stacking unit, wherein the width guide unit is configured to be movable in a partial region of a stacking region of at least one of the first stacking unit and the second stacking unit along the second direction.

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): 0.6995159722715513
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.484714085459512
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6780357835903473
- Mean Citation Score: 186.039616
- Max Citation Score: 197.13655
- Similarity Product: 133.31450469723342

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