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 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein in the draw-in operation or the re-feeding operation of a first sheet having a sheet length in a conveying direction greater than a path length from the second branch point to the junction, the hardware processor performs a simultaneous conveying operation so as to perform the conveying operation of a next second sheet such that a part of the first sheet extending to the conveyance path out of the junction overlaps a part of the second sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86792
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16005838', '14966623', '14386689', '13845793', '15819207']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5382865382478235
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790627121414543
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5323641556371865
- Mean Citation Score: 203.825564
- Max Citation Score: 209.6602
- Similarity Product: 172.4335656345367

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