PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15902331
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "010120"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveyance device includes: a container that accommodates loaded sheets; a feeding mechanism that continuously feeds the sheet from the container; a conveyance path on which the sheet is conveyed; and a pitch adjustment mechanism provided on the conveyance path and which adjusts a pitch of a preceding sheet and a subsequent sheet, wherein the pitch adjustment mechanism includes a pitch adjustment roller pair including a first pitch adjustment roller and a second pitch adjustment roller that sandwich the conveyance path and are in pressure contact with each other, the first pitch adjustment roller is driven and rotated in a direction following a sheet conveying direction, the second pitch adjustment roller is driven and rotated in the direction following a sheet conveying direction, and the second pitch adjustment roller is connected to a drive shaft that drives the second pitch adjustment roller via a one-way clutch.

Claim (Index 6):
The sheet conveyance device according to  claim 5 , wherein\n the feeding mechanism includes a pickup roller that takes out the sheet by being driven and rotated in a state of being in contact with the sheet located at an endmost position in a loading direction of the plurality of loaded sheets, a separation roller pair arranged downstream of the pickup roller in the sheet conveying direction, and arranged to sandwich the conveyance path, and a conveyance roller pair arranged downstream of the separation roller pair in the sheet conveying direction, the separation roller pair includes a sending roller that sends the sheet by being driven and rotated in the direction following the sheet conveying direction, and a handling roller that generates conveyance resistance against the sheet by being driven and rotated in a reverse direction to the direction following the sheet conveying direction or by being stopped to be rotated, and the conveyance roller pair is driven and rotated in the direction following the sheet conveying direction such that a peripheral speed on an outer peripheral surface of the conveyance roller pair becomes slower than a peripheral speed on an outer peripheral surface of the sending roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55738
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11443397', '14056141', '13586154', '15585786', '12727621']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7710668284693716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4710912682460534
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7410692724470398
- Mean Citation Score: 211.916552
- Max Citation Score: 219.93211
- Similarity Product: 175.3363592323071

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

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