PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16211841
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has an image forming section configured to form an image on an image receiving medium conveyed along a conveyance path from a cassette thereto, a diverted conveyance path connected to the conveyance path at a first point on the conveyance path upstream of the image forming section, a movable guide that is controlled to guide the image receiving medium along a first path that includes a second point on the conveyance path downstream of the first point or a second path that includes the diverted conveyance path, a group of sensors positioned to detect at least two positions of a leading edge of the image receiving medium before the image receiving medium is guided by the movable guide, and a controller configured to control the movable guide to guide the image receiving medium along the first or second path based on detection results of the sensors.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the cassette has an alignment guide that is movable to set an orientation of the image receiving medium to be picked up from the cassette onto the conveyance path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67241
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13081972', '13907555', '14689150', '12758307', '15073723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5272676660541062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.495684430296668
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5241093424783625
- Mean Citation Score: 185.830186
- Max Citation Score: 191.85258
- Similarity Product: 126.23709791567086

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

Dataset: test