PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899775
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "126000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feeding device includes a stacking unit for stacking a sheet; a feeding member for feeding the sheet stack on the stacking unit; a holding member holding the feeding member; a holder supporting portion, provided above the stacking unit, for detachably supporting the holding member; a raising and lowering unit for raising and lowering the holding member; a detection unit for detecting a topmost surface of the sheet stacked on the stacking unit, by detecting the holding member; a control unit for effecting raising and lowering operation of the holding member using the raising and lowering unit before a feeding operation of the feeding member and detect presence or absence of the holding member on the basis of a signal from the detection unit produced with the raising and lowering operation.

Claim (Index 2):
A device according to  claim 1 , wherein said holding member includes a member-to-be-detected rotatable with the rotation of said holding member and configured to switch the signal of said detection unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02128
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10813036', '10366508', '11623816', '15790419', '12797789']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7930510009200472
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5032180838594209
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7640677092139846
- Mean Citation Score: 242.373346
- Max Citation Score: 255.87909
- Similarity Product: 147.23584688155174

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

Dataset: test