PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939907
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "227000"]

Abstract:
A gravity-assisted registration system suited to use in a printing device includes a transport member with a surface on which an associated sheet is translated in a process direction. The surface defines an angle with respect to horizontal in a cross-process direction. A registration wall, adjacent a lower end of the surface, defines a registration edge for registering the sheet. A drive mechanism drives at least one rotation mechanism, for translating sheet in the process direction, each rotation mechanism including at least one drive member with an axis of rotation parallel to the surface in the cross-process direction, Each drive member includes a sliding mechanism, at a periphery of the drive member, enabling the sheet to slide, under gravity, on the surface, toward the registration wall into an alignment position, in contact with the registration wall.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of printing comprising:\n transporting a sheet of print media in a process direction on a print media path; registering the sheet of print media with a gravity-assisted registration system to reduce at least one of skew and lateral shift; and applying a marking material to the sheet with a marking device positioned on the paper path, upstream or downstream of the gravity-assisted registration system; wherein the gravity-assisted registration system comprises:\n a transport member including a surface on which the sheet is translated in the process direction, the surface defining an angle with respect to horizontal in a cross-process direction, of at least 1 degree; \n a registration wall adjacent a lower end of the surface which defines a registration edge for registering the sheet; \n a drive mechanism; and \n at least one rotation mechanism, driven by the drive mechanism, each of the at least one driven rotation mechanism including at least one drive member, positioned above the paper path, with an axis of rotation parallel to the surface in the cross-process direction, which translates the sheet in the process direction, each drive member including a sliding mechanism, at a periphery of the drive member, enabling the sheet to slide, under gravity, on the surface, toward the registration wall into an alignment position, in contact with the registration wall.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28788
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14246615', '11525146', '11010544', '11418704', '15939809']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7392398100412252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4831055264995538
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7136263816870582
- Mean Citation Score: 193.78182
- Max Citation Score: 206.28899
- Similarity Product: 134.33472558786335

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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