PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751833
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "109000"]

Abstract:
Provided herein may be a pick-up roller with a front-edge alignment element and a media separation apparatus using the pick-up roller. The pick-up roller may include a pick-up element configured to pick up and transfer a media sheet, and the front-edge alignment element provided at a position opposite to the pick-up element. During a process of picking up a stacked media sheet and transferring it into a space between a feed roller and a separation roller unit, the front-edge alignment element may align in advance a front edge of a media sheet disposed subsequent to the medial sheet that is being transferred, to a position of the entrance between the feed roller and the separation roller unit, and thereafter, the pick-up element may pick up the media sheet aligned by the front-edge alignment element and transfer it into the space between the feed roller and the separation roller unit.

Claim (Index 11):
A media separation apparatus comprising:\n a feed roller including a frictional element provided on a portion of an outer circumferential surface of a roller body and configured to come into contact with a media sheet, the feed roller being configured to transfer the media sheet toward a transfer path using the frictional element; a separation roller unit disposed facing the feed roller and configured to separate, from the media sheet that is transferred by the feed roller, another media sheet that is brought into close contact with and transferred along with the media sheet that is transferred by the feed roller; and a pick-up roller disposed on a side of stacked media sheets and including a pick-up element provided on a portion of an outer circumferential surface of a roller body thereof, the pick-up roller being configured to pick up one of the stacked media sheets using the pick-up element by rotation of the roller body and transfer the picked-up media sheet into a space between the feed roller and the separation roller unit, wherein the pick-up roller comprises a pick-up roller having a configuration according to any one of  claims 1  to  10  so that the pick-up roller aligns, using a front-edge alignment element, a front edge of a media sheet disposed subsequent to the picked-up media sheet to a position of an entrance between the feed roller and the separation roller unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11384311', '15345178', '12916429', '12125719', '12916361']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7651749008946943
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4750890402484334
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7361663148300682
- Mean Citation Score: 254.194318
- Max Citation Score: 263.7036
- Similarity Product: 235.96781457939147

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

Dataset: test