PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059153
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["271", "161000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an accommodation unit and at least one driving roller. The accommodation unit accommodates a paper sheet therein. The at least one driving roller is disposed contactably with the paper sheet. A rotation direction of the at least one driving roller with respect to the paper sheet at a contact part between the paper sheet and the roller intersects a carrying direction of the paper sheet.

Claim (Index 13):
A paper feeding method comprising:\n bending a paper sheet by moving the paper sheet accommodated in an accommodation unit in a direction intersecting a carrying direction of the paper sheet with at least one driving roller; and carrying the paper sheet in the carrying direction; moving the at least one driving roller between a contact position where the at least one driving roller comes into contact with the paper sheet and a separation position where the at least one driving roller is separated from the paper sheet, wherein a pickup roller is disposed on a downstream side of the at least one driving roller in the carrying direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02564
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15466048', '15464660', '15011559', '12222613', '15790364']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6828896201138962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.474316063602571
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6620322644627638
- Mean Citation Score: 149.41073880000005
- Max Citation Score: 215.25223
- Similarity Product: 173.31009611130418

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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