PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16211841
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has an image forming section configured to form an image on an image receiving medium conveyed along a conveyance path from a cassette thereto, a diverted conveyance path connected to the conveyance path at a first point on the conveyance path upstream of the image forming section, a movable guide that is controlled to guide the image receiving medium along a first path that includes a second point on the conveyance path downstream of the first point or a second path that includes the diverted conveyance path, a group of sensors positioned to detect at least two positions of a leading edge of the image receiving medium before the image receiving medium is guided by the movable guide, and a controller configured to control the movable guide to guide the image receiving medium along the first or second path based on detection results of the sensors.

Claim (Index 8):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n first and second cassettes each configured to accommodate a plurality of image receiving media having the same size; an image forming section configured to form an image on an image receiving medium that is conveyed along a conveyance path from one of the first and second cassettes to the image forming section; a diverted conveyance path connected to the conveyance path at a first point on the conveyance path that is upstream of the image forming section; a movable guide that is controlled to guide the image receiving medium along a first path that includes a second point on the conveyance path that is downstream of the first point on the conveyance path or a second path that includes the diverted conveyance path; three sensors positioned to detect at least three positions of a leading edge of the image receiving medium before the image receiving medium is guided by the movable guide, the three sensors being aligned along a width direction of the conveyance path; a controller configured to determine an amount of skew of the image receiving medium when leading edge detection times are different for all of the three sensors, and control the movable guide to guide the image receiving medium along the second path when the determined amount of skew is greater than a threshold amount; and a registration roller disposed downstream of the first point along the conveyance path, and configured to correct a skew of an image receiving medium less than the threshold amount.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67241
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13081972', '13907555', '14689150', '12758307', '15073723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4972077180340812
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948268584486491
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.496969632075538
- Mean Citation Score: 185.830186
- Max Citation Score: 191.85258
- Similarity Product: 124.2618205271995

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