PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16192026
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "397000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that reduces image artifacts caused by the back tension of a separating unit. A control unit decreases the number of rotations (the rotational speed) of a resist roller pair after the leading edge of a sheet reaches a transfer position.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 8 ,\n wherein the detecting unit is disposed downstream of the conveying unit and upstream of the transfer unit in the sheet feeding direction, and wherein the control unit obtains the point in time at which the trailing edge of the sheet passes through the nip portion based on a point in time at which the detection unit detects the leading edge of the sheet and a length of the sheet in the sheet feeding direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.3
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15797804', '14764538', '13869860', '15995919', '15229563']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8360850764670406
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5026903440264293
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8027456032229795
- Mean Citation Score: 263.90236600000003
- Max Citation Score: 321.16278
- Similarity Product: 292.81463837025416

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test