PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15998533
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["271", "121000"]

Abstract:
A first notch portion to which a first limiting member is movable and a second notch portion to which a second limiting member is movable are formed in a stacking surface of a stacking unit, and the first and second notch portions are arranged such that a minimum distance between the first notch portion and a center of the stacking unit in the widthwise direction is smaller than a minimum distance between the second notch portion and the center of the stacking unit in the widthwise direction.

Claim (Index 1):
A stacking apparatus capable of stacking a first sheet as a sheet fed to a predetermined apparatus and a second sheet having a larger size than the first sheet in a feeding direction in which the sheet is fed to the predetermined apparatus,\n the stacking apparatus comprising: a stacking unit configured to stack the first sheet and the second sheet; a first limiting unit movable in a widthwise direction perpendicular to the feeding direction, and configured to limit edges of the first sheet and the second sheet in the widthwise direction; and a second limiting unit movable in the widthwise direction, configured to limit the edges of the second sheet in the widthwise direction, and provided on an upstream side of the first limiting unit in the feeding direction, wherein a first notch portion to which the first limiting unit is movable and a second notch portion to which the second limiting unit is movable are formed in a stacking surface of the stacking unit, and the first notch portion and the second notch portion are arranged such that a minimum distance between the first notch portion and a center of the stacking unit in the widthwise direction is smaller than a minimum distance between the second notch portion and the center of the stacking unit in the widthwise direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54286
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15946074', '16010787', '15982283', '14719755', '14667966']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.740909863725762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4579225508931326
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7126111324424991
- Mean Citation Score: 186.9938
- Max Citation Score: 202.761
- Similarity Product: 169.9503369603753

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

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