PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920703
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "245000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveyance apparatus that conveys a sheet along a curved path shorter than the sheet and corrects skew of the sheet, includes: a conveyance roller that sends the sheet into the curved path; a guide that guides the sheet along the curved path; and a gate that is hinders advance of the leading end, generates a moment about a normal of the sheet passing through the leading end, and allows advance of the leading end by being pushed away by the leading end, wherein the guide includes a projection projecting toward a movement space for the sheet on a surface facing the movement space, and the projection abuts a center portion of the sheet in a longitudinal direction and generates a moment about an axis parallel to an advance direction of a portion that has come into contact with the projection.

Claim (Index 1):
A sheet conveyance apparatus that conveys a sheet along a curved path shorter than the sheet and corrects skew of the sheet at a terminal end of the curved path, the sheet conveyance apparatus comprising:\n a conveyance roller that is disposed at a starting end of the curved path and sends the sheet into the curved path; a guide that is disposed outside a curve of the curved path and guides the sheet along the curved path; and a gate that is disposed at the terminal end of the curved path such that a leading end of the sheet abuts the gate, hinders advance of the leading end, generates, at the leading end, a moment about a normal of the sheet passing through the leading end, and allows advance of the leading end by being pushed away by the leading end, wherein the guide includes a projection projecting toward a movement space for the sheet on a surface facing the movement space, the projection being provided in a region further on an inside than both ends of the sheet in a width direction of the movement space, and when the leading end of the sheet abuts the gate, the projection abuts a center portion of the sheet in a longitudinal direction and generates a moment about an axis parallel to an advance direction of a portion that has come into contact with the projection at the center portion in accordance with the moment generated at the leading end by the leading end abutting the gate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22059
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14478389', '13909367', '13536541', '12861323', '14677016']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.753321460215309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4729611711899258
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7252854313127707
- Mean Citation Score: 224.468728
- Max Citation Score: 227.19728
- Similarity Product: 177.38903784016608

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

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