PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032802
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a conveyance path, a flipping conveyance path, a conveying mechanism and a hardware processor. The flipping conveyance path includes a side path connecting a first branch point in a downstream of the conveyance path to a junction in an upstream of the conveyance path and a re-feeding path connecting a second branch point in the side path to a re-feeding point in an upstream of the conveyance path. The hardware processor controls the conveying mechanism to perform (i) a conveyance operation to convey the sheet along the conveyance path, (ii) a draw-in operation to draw the sheet with the image into the side path, and (iii) a re-feeding operation to convey the sheet in a reverse direction to re-feed the flipped sheet from the re-feeding point to the conveyance path.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a pair of transferring members which is disposed in the conveyance path to transfer a toner image onto the sheet; and a pair of fixing members which is disposed in the conveyance path to fix the toner image transferred on the sheet to form the image, wherein the first branch point is in a downstream of the conveyance path with respect to the pair of fixing members, the junction is in an upstream of the conveyance path with respect to the pair of transferring members, and the re-feeding point is in an upstream of the conveyance path with respect to the pair of transferring members, wherein the conveying mechanism conveys the sheet by means of conveyance roller pairs disposed in the conveyance path and the flipping conveyance path, and wherein the hardware processor (i) specifies a pair which is rotary driven only in a forward direction and at which the sheet is present at completion of the draw-in operation from among the pair of transferring members, the pair of fixing members and a conveyance roller pair disposed in a downstream of the conveyance path with respect to the junction, and (ii) separates at least the specified pair before the re-feeding operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86792
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16005838', '14966623', '14386689', '13845793', '15819207']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5077162533510581
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4805096007186467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.504995588087817
- Mean Citation Score: 203.825564
- Max Citation Score: 209.6602
- Similarity Product: 166.20100061855317

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