PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16205493
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["271", "228000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a plurality of position detectors, a leading end detector, and a position adjuster. The plurality of position detectors is configured to detect a position of a sheet. The leading end detector is configured to detect a leading end of the sheet. The position adjuster is configured to, based on a detection result obtained by the plurality of position detectors, rotate in a rotation direction of the sheet within a plane of conveyance of the sheet to change the position of the sheet the position adjuster grips the sheet under conveyance to cause the leading end detector to rotate with the position adjuster in the rotation direction of the sheet within the plane of conveyance of the sheet.

Claim (Index 15):
The sheet conveying device according to  claim 1 , wherein the position adjuster includes a pair of rollers, and the sheet conveying device further comprises:\n circuitry configured to perform a primary correction operation by,\n calculating a first displacement amount of the sheet based on the position of the sheet detected by a pair of upstream position detectors of the plurality of position detectors, \n moving the position adjuster in a first width direction and rotating the position adjuster in a first rotational direction within the plane of conveyance of the sheet based on the first displacement amount to cause the position adjuster to be normal with the leading end of the sheet, \n instructing the pair of rollers to grip the sheet and begin conveying the sheet in a sheet conveyance direction, \n receiving an indication that the leading end detector has detected the leading end of the sheet after the position adjuster has begun conveying the sheet in the sheet conveyance direction, \n determining a target conveyance timing based on at least the indication from the leading end detector, and \n moving the position adjuster in a second width direction and rotating the position adjuster in a second rotational direction within the plane of conveyance of the sheet while the position adjuster grips the sheet, the second width direction and the second rotational direction being opposite the first width direction and the first rotational direction, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.97872
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16000042', '16001009', '15925916', '15832872', '15899479']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7887709332319449
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4899144083353731
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7588852807422878
- Mean Citation Score: 269.13025200000004
- Max Citation Score: 289.68924
- Similarity Product: 251.25772680345293

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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