PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107549
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["271", "109000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet supporting portion including a supporting surface, an abutment portion against which a leading edge of the sheet abuts, a feeding rotator configured to feed the sheet, a first friction member provided on the supporting surface so as to face the feeding rotator, the first friction member including a first friction surface having a static friction coefficient greater than that of the supporting surface, a trailing end supporting portion configured to support a trailing end portion of the sheet curved upward, and a second friction member disposed upstream of the first friction member in the sheet feeding direction on the supporting surface, the second friction member including a second friction surface which has a static friction coefficient greater than that of the supporting surface and is configured to be in contact with the sheet supported by the supporting surface.

Claim (Index 8):
The sheet feeding apparatus according to  claim 7 , wherein the first tray comprises a third surface disposed downstream of the first surface in the sheet feeding direction and is inclined upward toward the abutment portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68421
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15098815', '15240153', '15448835', '14719755', '15922994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7830495731955448
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4920857872389441
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7539531945998847
- Mean Citation Score: 253.630846
- Max Citation Score: 259.70328
- Similarity Product: 183.6252385542012

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

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