PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868017
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["271", "012000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feeding device includes: a stacker that stacks sheets of paper; a suction conveyor disposed vertically above the sheets stacked in the stacker for sucking and conveying the sheets; a blower that blows air onto the sheets; and a regulating member disposed on a downstream side of the suction conveyor in a conveyance direction, facing an outlet of the sheets of the suction conveyor and projecting vertically upward, wherein the suction conveyor includes: horizontal portions provided on both ends in a width direction; and a recess provided in an intermediate portion and recessed vertically above the horizontal portions, and a lower limit of a projection height of the regulating member is set so that, when there is a vertical gap between a vertical upper end portion of the regulating member and the horizontal portions, a length of the gap is less than twice a thickness of the sheets.

Claim (Index 3):
The sheet feeding device according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein an upper limit of the projection height of the regulating member is set so that a gap between the upper end portion and the recess is wider than the thickness of one of the sheets of paper.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17568
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14926606', '15364765', '14078698', '12929467', '13329879']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7714575573524259
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790981494162873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.742221616558812
- Mean Citation Score: 216.154004
- Max Citation Score: 227.19719
- Similarity Product: 169.85702470831157

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

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