PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928476
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "110000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feed apparatus comprises a tray, a pair of first guide sections, and a first optical sensor. The tray has a housing section for accommodating a plurality of sheets. The pair of first guide sections, arranged in the tray, sandwich the sheets in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction. The first optical sensor provided above a bottom of the housing section in at least one of the first guide sections, is configured to detect one or more of uppermost sheets accommodated in the housing section.

Claim (Index 1):
A sheet feed apparatus, comprising:\n a tray having a housing to accommodate a plurality of sheets; a pair of first guides sections, arranged in the tray and configured to sandwich the sheets in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction; and a first optical sensor provided above a bottom of the housing in at least one of the first guides, and configured to detect one or more of uppermost sheets accommodated in the housing, the first optical sensor being mounted for movement between a first position and a second position below the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1087
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15006336', '14693146', '15709784', '15415249', '12098505']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7442273182442981
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4584832734120181
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7156529137610701
- Mean Citation Score: 194.057864
- Max Citation Score: 197.52866
- Similarity Product: 161.64839466313362

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

Dataset: test