PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919152
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["271", "199000"]

Abstract:
A post-processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus includes a processing tray on which a sheet bundle is placed for discharging onto a discharge tray, a detector configured to detect presence or absence of the sheet bundle on the processing tray, and a controller. The controller is configured to control driving of the processing tray to discharge the sheet bundle onto the discharge tray and to determine whether or not to output an error if a detection result of the detector after the processing tray has been driven to discharge the sheet bundle onto the discharge tray indicates presence of the sheet bundle. The controller outputs the error if the sheet bundle is not a last sheet bundle of a post-processing job and does not output the error if the sheet bundle is the last sheet bundle of the post-processing job.

Claim (Index 13):
A sheet post-processing method comprising:\n executing a post-processing job to process a plurality of sheet bundles; performing discharging of the sheet bundles of the first post-processing job one at a time via a discharge path; detecting presence or absence of the sheet bundle in the discharge path; and outputting an error if the sheet bundle is not a last sheet bundle of the post-processing job, and not outputting the error if the sheet bundle is the last sheet bundle of the post-processing job, if the detector detects presence of the sheet bundle in the discharge path after the discharging unit has been driven to discharge the sheet bundle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75472
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15642227', '11616077', '12101876', '12814612', '12820037']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7595117934531428
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5068451763783609
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7342451317456646
- Mean Citation Score: 238.868334
- Max Citation Score: 333.3563200000001
- Similarity Product: 301.9463607556344

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