PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006672
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["271", "003190"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying apparatus includes a storage portion to store a sheet, first and second stack portions, first and second conveyance paths to convey a sheet towards the first stack portion and the second stack portion, respectively, a first conveyance unit, a reverse path, and a second conveyance unit. The first conveyance unit is provided downstream of the first conveyance path and reverses and conveys a sheet conveyed to the first conveyance path. The reverse path conveys, once more to the first conveyance path, a sheet that has been reversed by the first conveyance unit. The second conveyance unit is provided in the second conveyance path and downstream of an intersection point between the second conveyance path and the reverse path. While conveying and reversing a sheet conveyed to the second conveyance path towards the reverse path, the second conveyance conveys the conveyed sheet towards the second stack portion.

Claim (Index 9):
The sheet conveying apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein, in a case in where a first sheet and a second sheet succeeding the first sheet are continuously conveyed, and in which the second sheet is conveyed and discharged to the first stack portion, the first conveyance unit conveys the second sheet towards the first stack portion while conveying and reversing the first sheet towards the reverse path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.39583
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15091387', '15948319', '11945738', '14966623', '15013863']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7974940677134746
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4998321209530251
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7677278730374297
- Mean Citation Score: 295.780172
- Max Citation Score: 308.40594
- Similarity Product: 249.5696751489544

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