PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011743
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["271", "109000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feeding device includes a sheet stacking base having a base surface for a sheet, a feeding member, and a pair of cursors. The pair of cursors includes first and second cursors that separate from and come close to each other along the sheet width direction, and is movable between first position and second position. The first and second cursors are separated by the maximum distance at the first position and by the minimum distance at the second position. The first cursor includes a movable base part, and a movable sub-cursor. When a narrow sheet is placed on the base surface, the sub-cursor is moved from the reference position toward the second cursor to be brought into contact with a side face of the narrow sheet to thereby position the narrow sheet.

Claim (Index 1):
A sheet feeding device comprising:\n a sheet stacking base that has a base surface on which a sheet is placed; a feeding member that is provided at a center, in a sheet width direction, of the base surface, and feeds the sheet placed on the base surface in a feeding direction perpendicular to the sheet width direction; and a pair of cursors including a first cursor and a second cursor for positioning the sheet placed on the base surface, the first cursor and the second cursor coming close to and separating from each other in the sheet width direction on the base surface with the center, in the sheet width direction, of the base surface used as a first reference position, wherein the first cursor and the second cursor is movable between a first position where the first cursor and the second cursor are separated by a maximum distance and a second position where the first cursor and the second cursor are separated by a minimum distance, the first cursor of the pair of cursors includes a base part that is movable in the sheet width direction on the base surface, and a sub-cursor that is movable from a second reference position toward the second cursor on the base part, the sub-cursor being, at the second reference position, a portion for positioning the sheet in the first cursor, and in a case where a narrow sheet that has a width smaller than a distance between the first cursor with the sub-cursor arranged at the second reference position and the second cursor at the second position is placed on the base surface, the sub-cursor is moved from the second reference position toward the second cursor to be brought into contact with a side face of the narrow sheet so as to position the narrow sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30645
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14507456', '11486857', '13370587', '15074146', '13857957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7475887460395811
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4715166920464453
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7199815406402675
- Mean Citation Score: 212.072186
- Max Citation Score: 230.07564
- Similarity Product: 185.2436398670125

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