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 17):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a first stacking unit configured to move up and down in a vertical direction, and configured to stack sheets of a first size; a second stacking unit configured to be jointed to the first stacking unit in a state in which the first stacking unit is located at a position of a predetermined height, and configured to stack sheets of a second size larger than the first size in cooperation with the first stacking unit in a state in which the first stacking unit is located at a position higher than the predetermined height, and to be released from a joint to the first stacking unit in a state in which the first stacking unit is located at a position lower than the predetermined height; a feeding unit configured to feed the sheets stacked on the first stacking unit or on the first stacking unit and the second stacking unit; and an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheets fed by the feeding unit.

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): 0.7001276879748781
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4818306855983594
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6782979877372263
- Mean Citation Score: 186.039616
- Max Citation Score: 197.13655
- Similarity Product: 137.5054913044035

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