PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16377686
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "010010"]

Abstract:
A feeding apparatus includes a feeding member, first and second conveying members, a separation member, and drive and control units. The feeding member feeds a recording material placed on a tray. The separation member and the first conveying member form a nip portion and separates recording materials at the nip portion. The second conveying member conveys a conveyed recording material. The drive unit drives at least the feeding member. The control unit controls to feed first and second recording materials such that a second recording material front edge passes the nip portion before a first recording material rear edge passes the nip portion, and controls to stop the second recording material after the second recording material front edge has passed the nip portion such that the first recording material rear edge reaches the second conveying member before the second recording material front edge reaches the second conveying member.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein, in a case in which the first recording material is fed to the nip portion by the feeding member, the separation member is rotated in a predetermined direction with the first recording material, wherein, in a state in which the first recording material is nipped in the nip portion when the second recording material is fed to the nip portion by the feeding member, the separation member is rotated in the predetermined direction with the second recording material, and wherein, in a state in which the first recording material and the second recording material are nipped in the nip portion when a third recording material placed on the tray is fed to the nip portion, the separation member stops rotating in the predetermined direction or rotates in a direction opposite the predetermined direction to prevent the third recording material from being fed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09804
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15495585', '15995919', '15457870', '15920969', '15453647']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7763313483159605
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5484916321345934
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7535473766978238
- Mean Citation Score: 355.23441600000007
- Max Citation Score: 416.37552
- Similarity Product: 384.4409190141678

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