PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129017
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "242000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a first pair of conveying rollers for conveying a sheet; a second pair of conveying rollers against which the leading edge of the sheet conveyed by the first pair of conveying rollers is hit and which conveys the sheet together with the first pair of conveying rollers by rotating after a loop is formed on the sheet; a separating portion for separating the first pair of conveying rollers; a first conveyance path for guiding the sheet; a second conveyance path which is a path different from the first conveyance path and guides the sheet; and a controller which changes a separation timing at which the first pair of conveying rollers is separated after the loop is formed on the sheet, depending on whether the sheet is guided by the first conveyance path or by the second conveyance path.

Claim (Index 20):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a first pair of conveying rollers configured to convey a sheet to a second pair of conveying rollers; the second pair of conveying rollers, which are configured to convey a sheet to a third pair of conveying rollers; the third pair of conveying rollers, which are configured to convey a sheet toward a transfer portion so that a leading edge of the sheet conveyed by the second pair of conveying rollers is abutted against the third pair of conveying rollers for forming a loop on the sheet; an image forming unit configured to form an image; a transfer portion configured to transfer the image to the sheet conveyed by the third pair of conveying rollers; a fixing unit configured to fix the image on the sheet; a separator configured to separate the second pair of conveying rollers; and a controller configured to control a timing for the separator to separate the second pair of conveying rollers after the loop is formed on the sheet based on a length of the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90385
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15478479', '14953558', '15447688', '13316881', '14662362']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7676169006519991
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5170508947089127
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7425603000576905
- Mean Citation Score: 289.96093200000007
- Max Citation Score: 361.80594
- Similarity Product: 288.75714625923166

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

Dataset: test