PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15902331
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "010120"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveyance device includes: a container that accommodates loaded sheets; a feeding mechanism that continuously feeds the sheet from the container; a conveyance path on which the sheet is conveyed; and a pitch adjustment mechanism provided on the conveyance path and which adjusts a pitch of a preceding sheet and a subsequent sheet, wherein the pitch adjustment mechanism includes a pitch adjustment roller pair including a first pitch adjustment roller and a second pitch adjustment roller that sandwich the conveyance path and are in pressure contact with each other, the first pitch adjustment roller is driven and rotated in a direction following a sheet conveying direction, the second pitch adjustment roller is driven and rotated in the direction following a sheet conveying direction, and the second pitch adjustment roller is connected to a drive shaft that drives the second pitch adjustment roller via a one-way clutch.

Claim (Index 5):
The sheet conveyance device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the feeding mechanism is capable of feeding the preceding sheet and the subsequent sheet in an at least partially overlapping state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55738
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11443397', '14056141', '13586154', '15585786', '12727621']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7699354093975068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4777021763444958
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7407120860922057
- Mean Citation Score: 211.916552
- Max Citation Score: 219.93211
- Similarity Product: 162.98980194399417

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

Dataset: test