PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16377686
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "010010"]

Abstract:
A feeding apparatus includes a feeding member, first and second conveying members, a separation member, and drive and control units. The feeding member feeds a recording material placed on a tray. The separation member and the first conveying member form a nip portion and separates recording materials at the nip portion. The second conveying member conveys a conveyed recording material. The drive unit drives at least the feeding member. The control unit controls to feed first and second recording materials such that a second recording material front edge passes the nip portion before a first recording material rear edge passes the nip portion, and controls to stop the second recording material after the second recording material front edge has passed the nip portion such that the first recording material rear edge reaches the second conveying member before the second recording material front edge reaches the second conveying member.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a feeding member configured to feed a recording material placed on a tray; an imaging forming unit for forming an image on the recording material fed by the feeding member; a conveying member configured to convey the recording material that has been fed by the feeding member; a separation member configured to form a nip portion together with the conveying member and separate a plurality of recording materials from each other at the nip portion; a transmitting unit configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave; a receiving unit configured to receive the ultrasonic wave that is transmitted from the transmitting unit and that has passed through the recording material; and a control unit configured to control a feeding operation performed by the feeding member, wherein the control unit controls a first feeding operation such that a first recording material placed on the tray is fed and a second recording material, which is to be fed next to the first recording material, is fed for a predetermined distance so that the first recording material and the second recording material partially overlap before a rear edge of the first recording material passes the nip portion, wherein the control unit controls a second feeding operation such that the first recording material placed on the tray is fed and the second recording material, which is to be fed next to the first recording material, is fed so that a front edge of the second recording material passes the nip portion after a rear edge of the first recording material has passed the nip portion, and wherein the control unit controls the first feeding operation or the second feeding operation based on the ultrasonic wave received by the receiving unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09804
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15495585', '15995919', '15457870', '15920969', '15453647']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7559376184175643
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5441769814355516
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7347615547193631
- Mean Citation Score: 355.23441600000007
- Max Citation Score: 416.37552
- Similarity Product: 359.68132615156173

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

Dataset: test