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 17):
The method according to  claim 15 , further comprising:\n detecting that the leading edge detection times are the same for two of the three sensors and different for one of the three sensors; diverting the image receiving medium from the first path to the second path when detecting that the leading edge detection times are the same for two of the three sensors and different for one of the three sensors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67241
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13081972', '13907555', '14689150', '12758307', '15073723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4969415404774161
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4958734958583993
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4968347360155145
- Mean Citation Score: 185.830186
- Max Citation Score: 191.85258
- Similarity Product: 122.82628952907083

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