PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926039
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "122000"]

Abstract:
A card transport device transports one or more cards while reducing failures of its feed unit in feeding the cards. A card transport device includes a support surface that supports one or more cards thereon, a feed unit facing the support surface for feeding the one or more chards, a separator located downstream from the feed unit in a transport direction, a slope connected to a downstream support end of the support surface in the transport direction and extending obliquely upward downstream in the transport direction toward the separator, and a restrictor located on the support surface. The restrictor restricts a position of an upstream end of a particular card directly supported on the support surface, out of the one or more cards, thereby positioning a downstream end of the particular card to be downstream from the feed unit in the transport direction.

Claim (Index 1):
A card transport device, comprising:\n a support surface configured to support one or more cards thereon; a feed unit facing the support surface, and configured to feed the one or more cards supported on the support surface downstream in a transport direction along a transport path; a separator located downstream from the feed unit in the transport direction, and configured to transport the cards fed by the feed unit downstream in the transport direction while separating the cards from one another; a slope connected to a downstream support end of the support surface in the transport direction and extending obliquely upward downstream in the transport direction toward the separator; and a restrictor located on the support surface, and configured to restrict a position of an upstream end in the transport direction of a particular card directly supported on the support surface, out of the one or more cards, thereby positioning a downstream end of the particular card to be downstream from the feed unit in the transport direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57627
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15693604', '15693538', '15274239', '14501585', '14038397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7284571586127327
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4620439773322889
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7018158404846884
- Mean Citation Score: 159.916976
- Max Citation Score: 170.6722
- Similarity Product: 125.66888955585956

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

Dataset: test