PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16358252
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "401000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a discharge unit, a double-sided conveyance path, a sheet plate, a skew correction unit, and a frame. The discharge unit discharges a sheet having an image from the image forming unit. The double-sided conveyance path conveys the sheet again to the image forming unit. The sheet plate restricts a position of an end, in a sheet width direction, of the sheet. The skew correction unit obliquely conveys the sheet to abut the sheet end. The frame determines a position of the sheet plate and includes a first positioning portion to position a sheet plate first positioned portion and a second positioning portion to position a sheet plate second positioned portion with the skew correction unit between the first and second positioned portion. The first positioning portion faces the first positioned portion and the second positioning portion faces the second positioned portion.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n a stacking unit configured to stack sheets on the stacking unit; an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet conveyed from the stacking unit; a discharge unit configured to discharge the sheet on which the image has been formed by the image forming unit to a discharge portion; a double-sided conveyance path configured to convey the sheet which has passed the image forming unit to the image forming unit again; a sheet plate provided to the double-sided conveyance path and configured to restrict a position of an end of the sheet, wherein the end is an end of the sheet in a sheet width direction; a skew correction unit configured to obliquely convey the sheet so as to abut the end of the sheet on the sheet plate; and a frame configured to determine a position of the sheet plate, wherein the frame is a part of the double-sided conveyance path and includes a first positioning portion configured to position a first positioned portion of the sheet plate and a second positioning portion configured to position a second positioned portion of the sheet plate, wherein the first positioning portion faces the first positioned portion in a sheet conveyance direction and the second positioning portion faces the second positioned portion in the sheet width direction, and wherein the skew correction unit is disposed between the first positioning portion and the second positioning portion in the sheet conveyance direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.56522
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15091387', '15703243', '14508828', '15013863', '12439044']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8409229921096462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5182872114947781
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8086594140481593
- Mean Citation Score: 302.5902480000001
- Max Citation Score: 356.67136
- Similarity Product: 276.30449625415804

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

Dataset: test