PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983541
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus transmits a sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device, obtains a sheet through a receiving device and performs image formation on the sheet. The receiving device comprises an inlet sensor for detecting a sheet fed from the sheet feeding device. The image forming apparatus transmits the sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device again in a case where the inlet sensor does not detect a sheet within a predetermined time after the sheet feeding device starts to feed a sheet and no signal indicating an abnormality with regard to a sheet is received from the sheet feeding device. If the number of times the sheet feeding request is transmitted exceeds a predetermined number of times, the image forming apparatus stops operation.

Claim (Index 10):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 7 , further comprising:\n a receiving apparatus including the sheet detector and configured to receive the sheet from the sheet feeding device and deliver the sheet to the image forming part, wherein the receiving apparatus is further configured to transmit a delay notice indicating that sheet conveyance is delayed to the controller in a case where the sheet detector does not detect the sheet after the first predetermined time elapses after a delivery notice indicating that the sheet is to be delivered to the apparatus is received, and wherein the controller is further configured to:\n measure the abnormality continuation time in accordance with the delay notice; \n transmit the sheet feeding request to the sheet feeding device again in a case where a measurement result of the abnormality continuation time is not less than the second predetermined time; and \n stop operation of the image forming part in a case where measurement result of the abnormality continuation time is less than the second predetermined time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25424
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15254687', '12560956', '15254081', '15440159', '14683413']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5156171385138656
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824479147306935
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5123002161355484
- Mean Citation Score: 190.85060000000004
- Max Citation Score: 199.90965
- Similarity Product: 150.49772537174815

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

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