PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870039
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["271", "117000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying apparatus, including: a sheet container; a roller; an arm rotatably supporting the roller; and a presser plate for pressing sheets in the container, wherein distal and basal portions of the presser plate define a bend angle when bent, the bend angle being an angle defined on one side of the presser plate farther from the arm, the bend angle being maintained at an obtuse angel in a first-amount loaded state of the container, and wherein a contact angle of the arm and the sheets at a contact position thereof is smaller than a maximum angle from a maximally loaded state to the first-amount loaded state, the maximum angle being an angle defined by: the basal portion in the maximally loaded state; and the arm whose roller contacts the presser plate in the maximally loaded state when assumed that the sheets are not loaded on the presser plate.

Claim (Index 8):
The sheet conveying apparatus according to  claim 6 ,\n wherein the distal member includes an extending portion disposed on one surface of an end of the distal member at which the bend portion is provided, which one surface is opposite to another surface of the end of the distal member that faces the roller, the extending portion extending in a direction which intersects the distal portion and which is directed from the bend portion toward the presser-plate pivot shaft, wherein the angle adjuster includes a push-up member supported by the container so as to be pivotable about a push-up member pivot shaft parallel to the rotation shaft while a downstream end of the push-up member in the conveyance direction is located downstream of the push-up member pivot shaft, the push-up member being configured to pivot the basal member about the presser-plate pivot shaft by pivoting about the push-up member pivot shaft while the downstream end of the push-up member is held in contact with one surface of the basal member opposite to another surface thereof that faces the roller, wherein the angle adjuster is configured such that, within the time period in which the state of the container changes from the maximally loaded state to the first-amount loaded state, the bend angle is gradually decreased at least in a time period from a first time point at which the state of the container is the maximally loaded state to a third time point at which a second amount of the plurality of sheets larger than the first amount are loaded on the container and which is earlier than a second time point at which the state of the container reaches the first-amount loaded state, by pivoting the push-up member such that the downstream end of the push-up member is moved in the direction directed from the bend portion toward the presser-plate pivot shaft while the downstream end is kept interposed between the extending portion and the basal member, and the push-up member is moved away from between the extending portion and the basal member at the third time point, and the bend angle is kept defined by contact of the extending portion and the basal member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50769
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12147329', '11231034', '13269702', '10974837', '13432347']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7359884547740133
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887223796822827
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7112618472648402
- Mean Citation Score: 207.124102
- Max Citation Score: 214.91782
- Similarity Product: 149.336203984704

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