PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16277554
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["347", "110000"]

Abstract:
A printer according to an embodiment includes a printing unit that prints on a sheet. The sheet is discharged through an outlet. The sheet is conveyed on a sheet conveyance path through the printing unit and to the outlet. A movable device is located on the sheet conveyance path upstream of the outlet in a sheet conveying direction. The movable device can move between a separation position, a proximity position, and a protruding position. A detection device detects a position of the movable device. A controller determines a conveyance abnormality of the sheet based on the state of the movable device detected by the detection device, and outputs a signal indicating the conveyance abnormality.

Claim (Index 14):
A merchandise information processing apparatus comprising:\n a communication interface that receives transaction information; a printing unit configured to perform printing on a sheet based on the transaction; an outlet through which the sheet is discharged; a guide positioned between the printing unit and the outlet and having a conveyance surface on which the sheet is conveyed towards the outlet; a movable device configured to move between:\n a separation position in which the movable device is separated from the conveyance surface by more than a predetermined threshold distance, \n a proximity position in which the movable device is separated from the conveyance surface by a distance equal to or less than the predetermined threshold distance, and \n a protruding position in which a part of the movable device protrudes beyond the conveyance surface toward an opposite side thereof; and \n a controller configured to determine that a conveyance abnormality of the sheet is occurring upon detecting that the movable device does not move to the proximity position from the protruding position after conveyance of the sheet is started or the movable device is in the separation state, and output a signal indicating the conveyance abnormality.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33962
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15692944', '16258847', '14341410', '14718707', '14945423']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7213298938421873
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.481347409200082
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6973316453779768
- Mean Citation Score: 146.41742
- Max Citation Score: 154.65334
- Similarity Product: 99.23735637964369

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

Dataset: test