PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16045684
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "498000"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an image of a medium fed through a first feed path, a switching unit that isolates a third feed path from a junction so as to guide the medium from a second feed path to the first feed path when being disposed at a first position and that guides the medium from the first feed path to the third feed path when being disposed at the second position, and a drive unit that moves the switching unit to the second position when the medium is fed from the first feed path to the third feed path, wherein the drive unit moves the switching unit to the first position after a lapse of predetermined time from a beginning of feeding the medium from the third feed path toward the first feed path.

Claim (Index 1):
An image reading apparatus comprising:\n a junction where a first feed path, a second feed path, and a third feed path join together; a reading unit configured to read an image of a medium fed through the first feed path; a switching unit that isolates the third feed path from the junction so as to guide the medium from the second feed path to the first feed path when being disposed at a first position and that guides the medium from the first feed path to the third feed path when being disposed at the second position; a first transporting roller that rotates in a first direction so as to feed the medium disposed in the first feed path apart from the junction and that rotates in a second direction opposite to the first direction so as to feed the medium disposed in the first feed path toward the junction; and a drive unit that moves the switching unit to the second position when the first transporting roller rotates in the second direction, wherein the drive unit transmits a rotation of the first transporting roller to the switching unit so as to move the switching unit to the first position after a lapse of predetermined time from when the first transporting roller starts rotating in the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.97959
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11741365', '16026884', '13043905', '13362515', '15622670']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5008943012976138
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4859573636866037
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4994006075365128
- Mean Citation Score: 193.420066
- Max Citation Score: 213.37251
- Similarity Product: 162.20843249097348

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