PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038666
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "251000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveyance apparatus including: an oblique-feed unit configured to convey a sheet by imparting to the sheet nipped a force in a direction inclined relative to a sheet conveyance direction so that the sheet approaches an abutment surface in the width direction as the sheet proceeds downstream in the sheet conveyance direction; a drive unit configured to drive the oblique-feed unit; a change unit configured to change the force of the oblique-feed unit; and a control unit configured to control the drive unit and the change unit so that, after causing the sheet to abut against the abutment surface in a first state in which the oblique-feed unit is driven at a first speed, the oblique-feed unit is put into a second state in which the oblique-feed unit is driven at a second speed higher than the first speed and the force is weaker than in the first state.

Claim (Index 3):
The sheet conveyance apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the oblique-feed unit includes a first nip portion and a second nip portion each of which is configured to nip the sheet;\n wherein the change unit is configured to change the first nip portion between a pressure state in which the first nip portion nips the sheet and a released state in which the pressure state is released, and the change unit is configured to change the second nip portion between a pressure state in which the second nip portion nips the sheet and a released state in which the pressure state is released; and wherein in the first state the control unit sets the first nip portion and the second nip portion to the pressure state, and in the second state the control unit sets the first nip portion to the released state and sets the second nip portion to the pressure state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80357
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12797126', '15229563', '12499333', '15098815', '15091387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7876240402849185
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4815992058452419
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7570215568409508
- Mean Citation Score: 222.699022
- Max Citation Score: 236.52058
- Similarity Product: 182.872504598434

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

Dataset: test