PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040901
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "121000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a support member having a support surface, a feed roller, a stopper, and a restriction member. The stopper includes a restriction surface configured to contact leading edges of sheets supported on the support surface. A tangent extends in parallel to the support surface and passes through a point on an outer peripheral surface of the feed roller, and the tangent and the restriction surface of the stopper crosses at an intersection point. When the stopper moves from a first position to a second position, the intersection point moves with a movement velocity in a direction parallel to the tangent, the movement velocity at the intersection point being defined as a specified movement velocity. The restriction member is configured to restrict movement of the stopper such that the specified movement velocity is greater than or equal to a circumferential velocity of the feed roller.

Claim (Index 7):
The sheet feeding apparatus according to  claim 5 , further comprising a controller configured to control the motor such that the feed roller conveys a first sheet at a first velocity and conveys a second or later sheet at a second velocity,\n wherein the controller is configured to control the motor such that the first velocity is slower than the second velocity at least until the restriction member retreats below the portion of the support surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48438
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15693604', '15693538', '14857490', '14959193', '13292407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7646196656783469
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5072314114416057
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7388808402546728
- Mean Citation Score: 271.16614
- Max Citation Score: 307.36737
- Similarity Product: 190.38203740443703

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

Dataset: test