PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16230089
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "316000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member and an image forming portion configured to form first and second toner images on the image bearing member. A control portion controls the image forming portion such that a first toner image is formed on a first image position of the image bearing member, and a second toner image is formed on a second image position of the image bearing member. The sheet moves to a first sheet position corresponding to the first image position based on a first detection position before the first toner image is transferred onto a first surface of the sheet and moves, after being inverted, to a second sheet position corresponding to the second image position based on a second detection position before the second toner image is transferred onto a second surface of the sheet.

Claim (Index 27):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member; an image forming portion configured to form first and second toner images on the image bearing member; a transfer portion configured to transfer the first and second toner images formed on the image bearing member by the image forming portion onto a sheet having a first surface and a second surface; a moving portion provided upstream of the transfer portion in a conveyance direction of the sheet and configured to move the sheet in a width direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction; a re-conveyance portion configured to invert the sheet bearing the first toner image transferred onto the first surface such that the first surface and the second surface change places and convey the sheet to the transfer portion again; a detection portion configured to detect a first detection position where a position, in the width direction, of the sheet before the first toner image is transferred onto the first surface, and a second detection position where a position, in the width direction, of the sheet inverted by the re-conveyance portion before the second toner image is transferred onto the second surface; and a control portion configured to control the moving portion so as to move the sheet to a first sheet position in the width direction based on the first detection position detected by the detection portion before the first toner image is transferred onto the first surface of the sheet, and to move the sheet, which has been moved by the moving portion to the first sheet position and inverted by the re-conveyance portion, to a second sheet position displaced from the first sheet position by an offset value in the width direction based on the second detection position detected by the detection portion before the second toner image is transferred onto the second surface of the sheet, wherein the control portion configured to control the image forming portion such that the first toner image is formed on a position, of the image bearing member, corresponding to the first sheet position and that the second toner image is formed on a position, of the image bearing member, corresponding to the second sheet position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.31818
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15425116', '15425126', '15613473', '14149673', '14219841']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7876815865092499
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5155365009651663
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7604670779548415
- Mean Citation Score: 268.058036
- Max Citation Score: 342.93295
- Similarity Product: 334.647578294

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