PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859837
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["271", "228000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a drive device, a pair of sheet holding rollers to convey a sheet in a sheet conveying direction, a gate to which a leading end of the sheet contacts, a first detector disposed upstream from the pair of sheet holding rollers to detect a position of the sheet and a second detector disposed downstream from the pair of sheet holding rollers to detect a position of the sheet. The pair of sheet holding rollers performs a primary correction to detect and correct a lateral displacement amount of the sheet by moving the pair of sheet holding rollers while holding the sheet, and then performs a secondary correction to detect and correct at least one of a subsequent lateral displacement of the sheet and an angular displacement of the sheet.

Claim (Index 2):
The sheet conveying device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the gate is the pair of sheet holding rollers, wherein the pair of sheet holding rollers is configured to (1) correct the angular displacement amount of the sheet by contacting the leading end of the sheet conveyed toward the pair of sheet holding rollers while the rotation of the pair of sheet holding rollers by the drive device is being stopped, and (2) move, while holding and conveying the sheet, from a reference position to a corrected position, operable to correct the lateral displacement amount of the sheet based on a detection result obtained by the first detector, and wherein, after a correction of the lateral displacement amount of the sheet, the pair of sheet holding rollers is configured to (1) move the pair of sheet holding rollers while holding the sheet from the corrected position, operable to correct at least one of the subsequent lateral displacement amount of the sheet and the angular displacement amount of the sheet based on the at least one of a detection result of the subsequent lateral displacement amount of the sheet and a detection result of the angular displacement amount of the sheet, continuously obtained by the first detector and the second detector, while the pair of sheet holding rollers is holding the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63158
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15832872', '14478389', '15681550', '14959780', '14713378']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7647502260777688
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5224345148887232
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7405186549588643
- Mean Citation Score: 304.1171020000001
- Max Citation Score: 354.1884
- Similarity Product: 304.793993879056

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