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 3):
The sheet conveying apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein a separation wall is formed integrally with a portion of the presser plate located downstream of the roller in the conveyance direction, the separation wall being configured such that, when the plurality of sheets are conveyed by rotation of the roller, the separation wall comes into contact with one of the plurality of sheets that is farthest from the roller and gives a resistance to the one of the plurality of sheets, so as to separate the plurality of sheets.

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): 0.7735735777165652
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5254460391864741
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7487608238635561
- Mean Citation Score: 260.09706
- Max Citation Score: 376.1619
- Similarity Product: 362.61374385670416

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