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 12):
The feeding apparatus according to  claim 11 , further comprising a detection unit, provided on a downstream side of the conveyance unit at a predetermined position near the conveyance unit in a sheet conveyance direction, for detecting a sheet,\n wherein the control unit performs control so as to cancel shielding by the shielding unit in accordance with detection by the detection unit that the sheet is fed to the predetermined position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47273
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12632946', '14032058', '12695955', '13094245', '10916557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7689230844663515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4985700758490469
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7418877836046212
- Mean Citation Score: 274.416196
- Max Citation Score: 288.62744
- Similarity Product: 199.15308774368287

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

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