PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952649
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "110000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet presence/absence detection sensor configured to detect presence or absence of a sheet on a stacking device, a sheet surface detection sensor configured to detect that a stacking tray is raised to enable a sheet to be fed, a separation cam, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine that the mounting state of a feeding holder to a holder support unit is defective when the sheet surface detection sensor detects that the sheet can be fed when the sheet presence/absence detection sensor detects absence of a sheet before sheet feeding processing by a pickup roller.

Claim (Index 17):
The sheet feeding apparatus according to  claim 16 , wherein the detection device comprises a light detection sensor, and\n wherein the feeding unit comprises an open/close member configured to be opened or closed with respect to a main body of the feeding unit when the feeding unit is mounted to or removed from the support device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15412398', '15899775', '14955839', '15138607', '14667966']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7792316579456343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5222506372285474
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7535335558739257
- Mean Citation Score: 270.05697000000004
- Max Citation Score: 368.8872
- Similarity Product: 286.721311066103

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