PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "498000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image former forming a toner image on a long sheet; a main conveyance path conveying the long sheet to the image former; and a double-side conveyance path which branches off from a first side, in the main conveyance path, downstream of the image former in a conveyance direction of the long sheet, and which conveys the long sheet to a second side upstream of the image former by reversing the conveyance direction at a point of switching back to invert the long sheet. The double-side conveyance path includes, in a downstream side in the conveyance direction before the switching back, a merging pathway connected to the second side upstream of the image former in the main conveyance path, and a first introducer introducing into the merging pathway a head of the long sheet in the conveyance direction before the switching back.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n a first sheet guide of a pair of sheet guides which form the double-side conveyance path is disposed on an unit movable from and into an apparatus body, and a second sheet guide of the pair of the sheet guides is fixed to the apparatus body; and a gap retainer for maintaining a gap between the pair of the sheet guides is provided between the pair of the sheet guides, the gap retainer being disposed on an end side which is on an outside of a width of the long sheet conveyed in the gap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01923
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13845793', '15661425', '12234059', '12222434', '15091387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5346568690746993
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872264242293922
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5299138245901687
- Mean Citation Score: 199.34951
- Max Citation Score: 203.80441
- Similarity Product: 151.57450808267652

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