PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751833
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "109000"]

Abstract:
Provided herein may be a pick-up roller with a front-edge alignment element and a media separation apparatus using the pick-up roller. The pick-up roller may include a pick-up element configured to pick up and transfer a media sheet, and the front-edge alignment element provided at a position opposite to the pick-up element. During a process of picking up a stacked media sheet and transferring it into a space between a feed roller and a separation roller unit, the front-edge alignment element may align in advance a front edge of a media sheet disposed subsequent to the medial sheet that is being transferred, to a position of the entrance between the feed roller and the separation roller unit, and thereafter, the pick-up element may pick up the media sheet aligned by the front-edge alignment element and transfer it into the space between the feed roller and the separation roller unit.

Claim (Index 4):
The pick-up roller according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the pick-up roller body includes elastic sheet fixing depressions formed in respective opposite side portions of the second section, and wherein the front-edge alignment element is configured by fitting opposite ends of the band-shaped elastic sheet into the respective elastic sheet fixing depressions formed on the opposite side portions of the second section such that the elastic sheet protruding outward from the outer circumferential surface of the second section forms a semicircular curved surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11384311', '15345178', '12916429', '12125719', '12916361']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7836644096698232
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930122733564896
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7545991960384899
- Mean Citation Score: 254.194318
- Max Citation Score: 263.7036
- Similarity Product: 186.89041964943408

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

Dataset: test