PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922344
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "111000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet tray configured to hold sheets, a sheet feeding unit configured to feed sheets from the sheet tray, and a lift unit configured to move the sheet tray up and down. When the type of sheets to be held on the sheet tray is to be changed to another type, the lift unit moves the sheet tray up or down to a sheet holding position set for sheets of the other type. Thus, the position where the sheet tray can hold sheets is changed in accordance with the material or size of the sheets. The largest number, in which sheets can be mounted on the sheet tray, can thereby be changed.

Claim (Index 9):
The sheet feeding apparatus according to  claim 8 , further comprising a sheet detecting unit configured to detect whether the sheet tray holds sheets, and in which if the sheet detecting unit detects no sheets on the sheet tray, the control unit controls the lift unit, moving the sheet tray up or down to the sheet holding position set by the sheet-holding position setting unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44231
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13544085', '14715738', '12691253', '14263475', '10715517']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7528814422310616
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4739923812884863
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.724992536136804
- Mean Citation Score: 223.689454
- Max Citation Score: 230.76761
- Similarity Product: 180.535015930019

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

Dataset: test