PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878637
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["271", "211000"]

Abstract:
A sheet stacking apparatus includes a discharging portion including a nip portion nipping and conveying a sheet, a stacking portion on which the sheet discharged by the discharging portion is stacked, an air blowing unit configured to blow air toward a lower face of the sheet being discharged by the discharging portion, and an air volume control portion configured to control the air blowing unit such that a volume of the air blown by the air blowing unit is switched from a first air volume to a second air volume which is smaller than the first air volume while the nip portion of the discharging portion is nipping and conveying the sheet to set the volume of the air to the second air volume in a case where a trailing end of the sheet discharged by the discharging portion passes through the nip portion.

Claim (Index 32):
The sheet stacking apparatus according to  claim 31 , wherein the alignment portion is configured to perform the aligning operation in a case where the air blowing unit blows air.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74074
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15223130', '14222984', '14952430', '13267168', '13782118']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7858098371326598
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5454982851561051
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7617786819350044
- Mean Citation Score: 304.81917600000014
- Max Citation Score: 441.90512
- Similarity Product: 298.90204445816994

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