PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16217109
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["271", "117000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, a paper feed apparatus comprises a paper feed section, a separation section, an abutting section and a friction force variable section. The paper feed section feeds an image receiving medium. The separation section is arranged at the downstream side of the paper feed section in a conveyance direction of the image receiving medium. In a case in which a plurality of the image receiving media fed from the paper feed section is overlapped, the separation section separates the plurality of the image receiving media that is overlapped. The abutting section abuts against the image receiving medium fed from the paper feed section. The friction force variable section changes a friction force of the abutting section against the image receiving medium.

Claim (Index 1):
A paper feed apparatus, comprising:\n a paper feed section configured to feed an image receiving medium; a separation section, arranged at the downstream side of the paper feed section in a conveyance direction of the image receiving medium, configured to separate a plurality of the image receiving media that is overlapped when the plurality of the image receiving media fed from the paper feed section is overlapped; an abutting section, arranged between the paper feed section and the separation section in the conveyance direction of the image receiving medium, configured to abut against the image receiving medium fed from the paper feed section; and a friction force variable section configured to change a friction force of the abutting section against the image receiving medium, wherein a conveyance state detection sensor configured to detect a conveyance state of the image receiving medium passing through the separation section, and a control device configured to control the friction force variable section so that the friction force against image receiving medium fed from the paper feed section is set to a reference friction force when the number of the image receiving media passing through the separation section is one; or, control the friction force variable section so that the friction force against image receiving medium fed from the paper feed section is greater than the reference friction force when a plurality of the image receiving media passing through the separation section is overlapped based on a detection result of the conveyance state detection sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.93478
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15426122', '15447500', '16158565', '11374464', '11094678']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7524100857924246
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5447671403426007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7316457912474422
- Mean Citation Score: 265.012098
- Max Citation Score: 425.70303
- Similarity Product: 392.9621511602605

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

Dataset: test