PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960979
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["270", "058090"]

Abstract:
A post-processing apparatus includes a loading tray, a post-processing unit for performing predetermined post-processing on a sheet before ejecting the sheet onto the loading tray, and a drawing paddle for sending the sheet conveyed toward the loading tray in a direction opposite to the conveying direction to draw the sheet to a predetermined position on a processing tray. The drawing paddle includes a paddle rotation shaft disposed above the processing tray with a predetermined distance from the processing tray, and a paddle blade fixed to the paddle rotation shaft. The paddle blade is a laminated body including an elastic sheet to be in contact with the sheet to be post-processed and a reinforcing sheet reinforcing the elastic sheet. The elastic sheet has a first length longer than the predetermined distance and the reinforcing sheet has a second length shorter than the predetermined distance.

Claim (Index 1):
A post-processing apparatus, comprising:\n a loading tray for receiving a sheet having been conveyed in a predetermined conveying direction; a post-processing unit including a processing tray for receiving a sheet to be post-processed, the processing tray being disposed upstream of the loading tray in the conveying direction, and a post-processing device for performing predetermined post-processing on the sheet disposed at a predetermined position on the processing tray, the post-processing unit ejecting the post-processed sheets onto the loading tray; and a drawing paddle for sending the sheet conveyed toward the loading tray in a direction opposite to the conveying direction to draw the sheet into the predetermined position on the processing tray, wherein the drawing paddle includes a paddle rotation shaft disposed above the processing tray with a predetermined distance from the processing tray, and a paddle blade fixed to the paddle rotation shaft, the sheet coming into contact with the paddle blade is drawn by the rotation of the paddle rotation shaft, the paddle blade is a laminated body including an elastic sheet having a high-friction surface and configured to be in contact with the sheet to be post-processed, and a reinforcing sheet reinforcing the elastic sheet, and the elastic sheet has a first length longer than the predetermined distance in a direction orthogonal to the paddle rotation shaft and the reinforcing sheet has a second length shorter than the predetermined distance in the direction orthogonal to the paddle rotation shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11008124', '11008142', '15889877', '15437154', '12101876']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7009758385665762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4544977040237246
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.676328025112291
- Mean Citation Score: 240.769178
- Max Citation Score: 244.68803
- Similarity Product: 193.743258340627

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