PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038582
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "147000"]

Abstract:
Separation strips in a dam aid in the separation of adjacent sheets of media being fed from a stack of sheets so that only one sheet is fed to a process station and, more particularly, to separating the uppermost or top sheet of a stack of sheets from the next adjacent sheet during feeding of the top sheet from the stack of sheets of media. When a lift plate is present that adjusts the height of the media stack, rotation of the separation strips to maintain a constant separation angle improves media feed reliability. Curvature of the separation strips may also maintain the separation angle as the lift plate raises the position of the top media sheet.

Claim (Index 8):
The apparatus according to  claim 5  An apparatus for maintaining a separation angle of a media stack with respect to a darn in a printer media tray comprising:\n a printer; \n a media tray; \n a lift plate mechanism in the media tray for lifting a media stack; \n a dam adjacent the front end of the media tray; \n at least one separation strip in the darn; and \n gear linkage in the media tray for rotating the separation strips in the darn such that the separation angle between the lift plate and the separation strips remains constant that, is controlled by motor encoders in the lift plate mechanism, \n wherein the darn rotates with the separation strips.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19643
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12916429', '12916433', '12916333', '12916446', '12916040']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7476494388984788
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4844894794585556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7213334429544864
- Mean Citation Score: 215.894468
- Max Citation Score: 230.40761
- Similarity Product: 158.3003089759684

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

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