PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["271", "265020"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a detector to detect a lateral end face of a sheet, a first pair of rollers to hold and convey the sheet and swing in a direction parallel to a plane of the sheet, a second pair of rollers to convey the sheet together with the first pair of rollers, and a controller to rotate the first pair of rollers to multiple angles, detect time changes at each angle at the lateral end face while conveying the sheet, and determine a home position corresponding to a position where respective rates of the time changes of the sheet at the first and second nip regions are substantially identical to each other or a home position having a least difference of rates of the time changes of the sheet at the first and second nip regions.

Claim (Index 16):
The sheet conveying device according to  claim 10 , wherein\n the detector includes two contact image sensors disposed upstream from the first pair of rollers and spaced apart in the sheet conveying direction, and the controller is configured to,\n cause the second drive device to rotate the first pair of rollers to multiple angles in the direction parallel to the plane of the sheet, \n cause the two contact image sensors to detect respective time changes of the time change before the sheet has reached the first pair of rollers at each of the multiple angles at the lateral end face of the sheet while conveying the sheet by the first pair of rollers and the second pair of rollers, and \n determine the home position based on the rate of the time change after the sheet has reached the first nip region of the first pair of rollers and the rate of the time change after the sheet has reached the second nip region of the second pair of rollers, based on detection results of the two contact image sensors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42188
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15832872', '14478389', '15925916', '15001947', '15681550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7978391823334491
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4926077085214175
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.767316034952246
- Mean Citation Score: 251.782888
- Max Citation Score: 283.6896700000001
- Similarity Product: 226.7126260734464

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

Dataset: test