PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "364000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a sheet feed section and a conveyance control section. The sheet feed section is provided with a plurality of cassettes in which sheets of a plurality of categories are stored for each category of the sheets, and feeds a sheet stored in the cassettes. The conveyance control section enables, in a case in which a sheet is fed from a cassette in which sheets to be printed after the printing surfaces thereof are aligned are stored among the cassettes, a reversal unit reversing the front side and the back side of the sheet at the time when the sheet is fed to convey and discharge the sheet regardless of a printing method designated by a user.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a sheet feed section configured to feed sheets from first and second cassettes configured to store the sheets; a first conveyance path extending from the first and second cassettes to a sheet discharge section; a reversal unit configured to turn over the sheets; a second conveyance path conveying the sheets from the sheet discharge section to the reversal unit, then merging to the first conveyance path the sheets from the reversal unit; an input unit configured to designate whether the first cassette or the second cassette; a memory configured to store page data for an forming an image on the sheets; and a conveyance control section configured to convey the sheets from the first cassette to the first conveyance path, and convey the sheets from a print section to the sheet discharge section, when the instruction to designate the first cassette is input from the input section and the page data is page data on one side of the sheet, the conveyance control section configured to convey the sheets from the first cassette to the first conveyance path, convey the sheets from the first conveyance path to the second conveyance path, then merging to the first conveyance path the sheets from the second conveyance path, and convey the sheets from the first conveyance path to the sheet discharge section, when the instruction to designate the first cassette is input from the input section and page data is page data on both sides of the sheet, the conveyance control section configured to convey the sheets from the second cassette to the first conveyance path, convey the sheets from the first conveyance path to the second conveyance path, then merging to the first conveyance path the sheets from the second conveyance path, and convey the sheets from the first conveyance path to the sheet discharge section, when the instruction to designate the second cassette is input from the input section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04615
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14809636', '14693146', '14852710', '14109481', '14708092']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8029259323281345
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5158469509393943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7742180341892604
- Mean Citation Score: 233.78846
- Max Citation Score: 354.62704
- Similarity Product: 320.7506485471535

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