PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112802
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "162000"]

Abstract:
A sheet separating device includes a sheet separator that includes plural separating portions which have a planar shape and which are stacked one on top of another. The sheet separator has openings provided between the plural separating portions at both ends of the plural separating portions in a sheet passing direction. The sheet separator allows gaps between the plural separating portions facing one another to receive one of plural sheets apiece so as to cause the plural sheets to be kept separated from one another. The sheet separating device is held on a placement portion of a sheet processing apparatus that includes a sheet processing unit and the placement portion. The sheet processing unit sequentially feeds thereinto the plural sheets through a feeding opening and performs processing on the plural sheets. The plural sheets to be fed through the feeding opening are placed on the placement portion.

Claim (Index 3):
The sheet separating device according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n coupling portions that are disposed between the plurality of separating portions on both sides of the plurality of separating portions in a sheet width direction intersecting the sheet passing direction and that connect the plurality of separating portions to one another in a stacking direction in which the plurality of separating portions are stacked.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35385
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12017082', '15560289', '11933546', '11798265', '10682295']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.735533812273819
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4670582861009302
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7086862596565301
- Mean Citation Score: 177.71559200000004
- Max Citation Score: 187.75645
- Similarity Product: 137.98368071676194

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

Dataset: test