PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895315
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "011000"]

Abstract:
A feeding apparatus comprises: a blower unit that is able to perform a first air blowing operation on sheets which are stacked on a stacking unit, and a second air blowing operation that volume of air blowing is smaller than volume of air blowing in the first air blowing operation; a feeding unit, brought into contact with the sheets stacked on the stacking unit and located on a feeding position to which feeding is performed while pressing the sheets from above, for feeding the sheets that have performed the first air blowing operation; and a control unit for controlling the blower unit to perform the first air blowing operation until a start of feeding by the feeding unit so as to separate the sheets stacked on the stacking unit.

Claim (Index 7):
The feeding apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of the blower unit,\n wherein the control unit perform control so as to perform the second air blowing operation by the blower unit closest to the feeding unit out of the plurality of the blower unit during the period from the start of feeding by the feeding unit to reaching of the sheets to the conveyance unit when the feeding unit feeds the sheets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47273
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12632946', '14032058', '12695955', '13094245', '10916557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7693150197668074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4953749534476681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7419210131348934
- Mean Citation Score: 274.416196
- Max Citation Score: 288.62744
- Similarity Product: 213.406440993514

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