PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960979
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["270", "058090"]

Abstract:
A post-processing apparatus includes a loading tray, a post-processing unit for performing predetermined post-processing on a sheet before ejecting the sheet onto the loading tray, and a drawing paddle for sending the sheet conveyed toward the loading tray in a direction opposite to the conveying direction to draw the sheet to a predetermined position on a processing tray. The drawing paddle includes a paddle rotation shaft disposed above the processing tray with a predetermined distance from the processing tray, and a paddle blade fixed to the paddle rotation shaft. The paddle blade is a laminated body including an elastic sheet to be in contact with the sheet to be post-processed and a reinforcing sheet reinforcing the elastic sheet. The elastic sheet has a first length longer than the predetermined distance and the reinforcing sheet has a second length shorter than the predetermined distance.

Claim (Index 5):
The post-processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a driving source for rotating and driving the paddle rotation shaft, a controller for controlling the driving source, and a sensor for detecting the arrival of the sheet to be post-processed at the predetermined position on the processing tray, wherein the controller stops the rotation of the paddle rotation shaft being driven by the driving source based on detection results from the sensor while drawing the sheet into the processing tray.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11008124', '11008142', '15889877', '15437154', '12101876']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.699636729678942
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4615324304289471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6758262997539425
- Mean Citation Score: 240.769178
- Max Citation Score: 244.68803
- Similarity Product: 176.20410556596218

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