PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920703
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "245000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveyance apparatus that conveys a sheet along a curved path shorter than the sheet and corrects skew of the sheet, includes: a conveyance roller that sends the sheet into the curved path; a guide that guides the sheet along the curved path; and a gate that is hinders advance of the leading end, generates a moment about a normal of the sheet passing through the leading end, and allows advance of the leading end by being pushed away by the leading end, wherein the guide includes a projection projecting toward a movement space for the sheet on a surface facing the movement space, and the projection abuts a center portion of the sheet in a longitudinal direction and generates a moment about an axis parallel to an advance direction of a portion that has come into contact with the projection.

Claim (Index 5):
The sheet conveyance apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein an outline of a top of the projection has an arc shape at least in a width direction of the movement space for the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22059
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14478389', '13909367', '13536541', '12861323', '14677016']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.774613932884389
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4760299990263071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7447555394985808
- Mean Citation Score: 224.468728
- Max Citation Score: 227.19728
- Similarity Product: 175.81498193954468

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