PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903493
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "265010"]

Abstract:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet supplying apparatus in which the user can select either automatic sheet feeding or manual sheet feeding. A sheet supplying apparatus of the present invention includes a driving unit configured to cause a roll including a wound consecutive sheet to rotate in a first direction for feeding the sheet or a second direction opposite to the first direction, a first sensor that detects a leading end portion of the sheet separated from an outer circumferential surface of the roll, a second sensor that detects the leading end portion which is manually set in a conveyance path by a user, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not automatic sheet feeding is performed on the basis of a detection result of the second sensor.

Claim (Index 5):
The sheet supplying apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein, in a case in which the second sensor does not detect the leading end portion within a predetermined period after the user sets the roll in the sheet supplying apparatus, the driving unit starts the rotation of the roll in the second direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07353
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15902509', '14939030', '13933795', '14939115', '14166565']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7509131667490068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4881651179302861
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7246383618671347
- Mean Citation Score: 176.744866
- Max Citation Score: 234.69695
- Similarity Product: 162.37070783602

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

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