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 14):
A method of adjusting a separation angle between a top media sheet and at least one separation strip in a printer comprising:\n rotating a lift plate positioned beneath a media stack in a media tray to alter an angle of incident between a top media sheet and the dam when the top sheet is picked by an auto-compensator mechanism during the paper feeding operation; and rotating the at least one separation strip in the dam through an angle to maintain a constant separation angle between the top media sheet and the at least one separation strip, wherein a gear linkage controlled by motor encoders in the lift plate mechanism is used to rotate the at least one separation strip in the dam such that the separation angle between the lift plate and the at least one separation strip remains constant.

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): 0.7485058132407562
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4796651021878591
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7216217421354665
- Mean Citation Score: 215.894468
- Max Citation Score: 230.40761
- Similarity Product: 168.42459966415169

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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