PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16033380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "120000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying apparatus, including: a sheet storage portion; a roller to convey sheets by rotating about a rotation axis; an arm rotatably supporting the roller and pivotable about an arm pivot axis; a presser plate pivotable about a presser-plate pivot axis; and a pivot mechanism to pivot the presser plate such that a contact angle, which is an angle defined upstream in a sheet conveyance direction by the arm and an uppermost one of the sheets contacting the roller, is less than a maximum angle in a time period from a sheet maximally loaded state to a sheet minimally loaded state, the maximum angle being an angle defined upstream in the conveyance direction by: only one sheet assumed to be placed on the presser plate which is the presser plate in the maximally loaded state; and the arm the roller of which contacts the one sheet.

Claim (Index 2):
The sheet conveying apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the pivot mechanism is configured such that the contact angle in the time period from the maximally loaded state to the minimally loaded state is not less than a minimum angle which is the contact angle when the storage portion is in the maximally loaded state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44615
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15870039', '15939596', '15472906', '15052656', '11475077']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7747659644638729
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5249307182657125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7497824398440569
- Mean Citation Score: 260.09706
- Max Citation Score: 376.1619
- Similarity Product: 303.7565655027509

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

Dataset: test