PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859837
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["271", "228000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a drive device, a pair of sheet holding rollers to convey a sheet in a sheet conveying direction, a gate to which a leading end of the sheet contacts, a first detector disposed upstream from the pair of sheet holding rollers to detect a position of the sheet and a second detector disposed downstream from the pair of sheet holding rollers to detect a position of the sheet. The pair of sheet holding rollers performs a primary correction to detect and correct a lateral displacement amount of the sheet by moving the pair of sheet holding rollers while holding the sheet, and then performs a secondary correction to detect and correct at least one of a subsequent lateral displacement of the sheet and an angular displacement of the sheet.

Claim (Index 18):
The sheet conveying device according to  claim 11 ,\n wherein the gate is a pair of sheet conveying rollers having a drive roller and a driven roller configured to form a nip region together with the drive roller, and wherein the angular displacement amount of the sheet is corrected by contacting the leading end of the sheet conveyed toward the pair of sheet conveying rollers to either one of the nip region of the pair of sheet conveying rollers and a projection configured to rotate together with the drive roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63158
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15832872', '14478389', '15681550', '14959780', '14713378']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7650069451469607
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5233497277119968
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7408412234034643
- Mean Citation Score: 304.1171020000001
- Max Citation Score: 354.1884
- Similarity Product: 281.2019976671219

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

Dataset: test