PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15889877
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "003180"]

Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying roller that conveys a sheet, a processing tray on which the sheet from the conveying roller is loaded, a reference stopper provided at one end of the processing tray, a return paddle having an elastic piece for transferring the sheet from the conveying roller to the reference member, and a roller arm that moves the return paddle in the sheet thickness direction at a predetermined moving rate according to the number of sheets loaded on the processing tray. The moving rate of the roller arm is reduced as the number of sheets loaded on the processing tray is increased. With this configuration, aligning property of even a wavy sheet can be suppressed from being deteriorated at sheet loading.

Claim (Index 1):
A sheet processing apparatus that applies processing to a loaded sheet, comprising:\n a conveying roller that conveys a sheet; a processing tray on which the sheet from the conveying roller is loaded; a reference member provided at one end of the processing tray; a transfer member that transfers the sheet from the conveying roller to the reference member; and a moving member that moves the transfer member in the sheet thickness direction at a predetermined moving rate according to the number of sheets loaded on the processing tray, wherein the moving rate of the moving member is reduced as the number of sheets loaded on the processing tray is increased.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04615
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14012513', '14330584', '15702263', '11373262', '12038222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7742605315008234
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4941008958077916
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7462445679315203
- Mean Citation Score: 279.880342
- Max Citation Score: 293.32562
- Similarity Product: 228.67798920859573

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

Dataset: test