PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895315
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "011000"]

Abstract:
A feeding apparatus comprises: a blower unit that is able to perform a first air blowing operation on sheets which are stacked on a stacking unit, and a second air blowing operation that volume of air blowing is smaller than volume of air blowing in the first air blowing operation; a feeding unit, brought into contact with the sheets stacked on the stacking unit and located on a feeding position to which feeding is performed while pressing the sheets from above, for feeding the sheets that have performed the first air blowing operation; and a control unit for controlling the blower unit to perform the first air blowing operation until a start of feeding by the feeding unit so as to separate the sheets stacked on the stacking unit.

Claim (Index 13):
The feeding apparatus according to  claim 11 , wherein the separation unit includes:\n an air blowing member configured to perform the air blowing operation; and a plurality of opening portions provided at different positions in the sheet conveyance direction and configured to guide air blowing by the air blowing member to the sheets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47273
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12632946', '14032058', '12695955', '13094245', '10916557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7899277710766067
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4959938935411013
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7605343833230562
- Mean Citation Score: 274.416196
- Max Citation Score: 288.62744
- Similarity Product: 220.8956563350344

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

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