PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16090463
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["271", "090000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a paper feeding device ( 10 ) comprising a storage surface ( 14 ) for a stack of papers ( 12 ), with a leading edge ( 14 a ), a trailing edge ( 14 b ), and a first and a second side edge ( 14 c,  14 d ). The surface ( 14 ) is adapted to be moved vertically. The device further comprises a vacuum feeder ( 16 ) for feeding papers from their position on the storage surface ( 14 ) and imparting on an uppermost sheet of paper ( 12 a ) a horizontal displacement, and a blower arrangement ( 18, 20 ) adapted to provide a curtain of air separating the uppermost sheet of paper ( 12 a ) from the rest of the stack of papers. The device further comprises a sensor arrangement ( 22 ) arranged to determine where the upper paper sheets in the stack of papers ( 12 ) start to separate from the rest of the paper sheets, the sensor arrangement ( 22 ) comprising a plurality of infrared reflective sensors ( 22 a ).

Claim (Index 2):
The paper feeding device according to  claim 1 , wherein the infrared sensors are arranged in two parallel rows.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61842
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15273766', '15273734', '11763455', '14273722', '15605866']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7507235290443782
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4895149532032019
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7246026714602606
- Mean Citation Score: 172.688266
- Max Citation Score: 210.56862
- Similarity Product: 132.61088772260428

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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