PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928296
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["271", "147000"]

Abstract:
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet storage portion, a sheet supporting member that is liftable, and a damper mechanism including a resistance member and a movable portion movable by abutting against a body of the apparatus. The damper mechanism resists, at least temporarily, relative movement of the movable portion and the sheet storage portion by applying resistive force produced by the resistance member to the movable portion in a case where the sheet storage portion is inserted to the body, and resists, at least temporarily, lowering movement of the sheet supporting member by applying resistive force produced by the resistance member to the sheet supporting portion in a case where the sheet storage portion with the sheet supporting member having been lifted by the lift portion is drawn out of the body.

Claim (Index 16):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a body; an image forming portion provided in the body and configured to form an image on a sheet; and a sheet feeding apparatus configured to feed a sheet to the image forming portion, the sheet feeding apparatus comprising:\n a sheet storage portion configured to store a sheet and inserted to the body; \n a sheet supporting member configured to support the sheet and liftable with respect to the sheet storage portion; \n a lift portion configured to lift the sheet supporting member with respect to the sheet storage portion; and \n a damper mechanism comprising:\n a movable portion supported by the sheet storage portion and configured to be moved with respect to the sheet storage portion by abutting against the body in a case where the sheet storage portion is inserted to the body; and \n a resistance member configured to produce resistive force, \n \n wherein the damper mechanism is configured to resist, at least temporarily, inserting movement of the sheet storage portion by applying resistive force produced by the resistance member to the movable portion in a case where the sheet storage portion is inserted to the body, and wherein the damper mechanism is configured to resist, at least temporarily, lowering movement of the sheet supporting member by applying resistive force produced by the resistance member to the sheet supporting portion in a case where the sheet storage portion with the sheet supporting member having been lifted by the lift portion is drawn out of the body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78431
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14688075', '13069823', '14488622', '12835915', '11623816']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.726572700406323
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922186727897065
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7031372976446615
- Mean Citation Score: 253.010036
- Max Citation Score: 274.9322
- Similarity Product: 226.8089180233956

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

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