PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16033380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "120000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying apparatus, including: a sheet storage portion; a roller to convey sheets by rotating about a rotation axis; an arm rotatably supporting the roller and pivotable about an arm pivot axis; a presser plate pivotable about a presser-plate pivot axis; and a pivot mechanism to pivot the presser plate such that a contact angle, which is an angle defined upstream in a sheet conveyance direction by the arm and an uppermost one of the sheets contacting the roller, is less than a maximum angle in a time period from a sheet maximally loaded state to a sheet minimally loaded state, the maximum angle being an angle defined upstream in the conveyance direction by: only one sheet assumed to be placed on the presser plate which is the presser plate in the maximally loaded state; and the arm the roller of which contacts the one sheet.

Claim (Index 7):
The sheet conveying apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein the sheet detecting mechanism is configured to detect the decrease of the plurality of sheets stored in the storage portion on an upstream side in the conveyance direction of an intersection point of: the presser plate in a state in which an angle, which is defined upstream in the conveyance direction by the arm and the presser plate when the roller contacts the presser plate in an empty state in which no sheets are stored in the storage portion, is the same as the contact angle in the maximally loaded state; and a virtual line that indicates a height level of an uppermost one of the plurality of sheets that is held in contact with the roller in the maximally loaded state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44615
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15870039', '15939596', '15472906', '15052656', '11475077']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7755811405769274
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5245773106809601
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7504807575873307
- Mean Citation Score: 260.09706
- Max Citation Score: 376.1619
- Similarity Product: 263.3932563680649

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

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