PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["271", "155000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feeding device capable of improving user's convenience even in a case where non-long sheets and long sheets are switchingly used. A sheet storage opened and closed for storing sheets to be used for image formation. A deck supply path feeds sheets from the sheet storage. A first and a second lift plate are provided in the sheet storage, side by side, in a sheet feeding direction. The first and second lift plates can be lifted up and down by a lift mechanism. A CPU determines whether or not an operation concerning storing long sheets in the sheet storage has been performed. When it is determined that the operation has been performed, the CPU controls the lift mechanism to cause the levels of the first and second lift plates to match each other.

Claim (Index 9):
The sheet feeding device according to  claim 6 , further comprising a opening/closing detector configured to detect opening or closing of the storage, and\n wherein the controller further determines whether or not a second operation has been performed concerning storing of non-long sheets not longer than the predetermined length in the sheet feeding direction, in the storage, and wherein the controller controls the lifter to lift down the first lift plate to a position below the predetermined position, in a case where it is determined that the second operation has been performed and also in a case where opening of the storage has been detected by the opening/closing detector, whereas the controller controls the lifter to lift down the first lift plate to the predetermined position in a case where it is determined that the operation has been performed, and also in a case where opening of the storage has been detected by the opening/closing detector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90789
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12202490', '14593780', '14667966', '13612642', '12891958']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.742766556821191
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4780848394181459
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7162983850808865
- Mean Citation Score: 198.255092
- Max Citation Score: 207.37744
- Similarity Product: 143.42344161014557

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

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