PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16377686
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "010010"]

Abstract:
A feeding apparatus includes a feeding member, first and second conveying members, a separation member, and drive and control units. The feeding member feeds a recording material placed on a tray. The separation member and the first conveying member form a nip portion and separates recording materials at the nip portion. The second conveying member conveys a conveyed recording material. The drive unit drives at least the feeding member. The control unit controls to feed first and second recording materials such that a second recording material front edge passes the nip portion before a first recording material rear edge passes the nip portion, and controls to stop the second recording material after the second recording material front edge has passed the nip portion such that the first recording material rear edge reaches the second conveying member before the second recording material front edge reaches the second conveying member.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the conveying member is a first conveying member, and the image forming apparatus further comprising a second conveying member configured to convey a recording material conveyed by the first conveying member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09804
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15495585', '15995919', '15457870', '15920969', '15453647']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.759471435936476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5363265193505253
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7371569442778809
- Mean Citation Score: 355.23441600000007
- Max Citation Score: 416.37552
- Similarity Product: 264.4363233673668

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

Dataset: test