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 20):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a feeding member configured to feed a sheet; a separating member configured to form a nip portion with the feeding member and separate sheets one by one at the nip portion; a conveying unit disposed downstream of the feeding member in a sheet feeding direction and configured to convey a sheet; a transfer unit disposed downstream of the conveying unit in the sheet feeding direction and configured to transfer an image formed on an image bearing member onto the sheet while the sheet is being conveyed; and a control unit configured to control the conveying unit, wherein, in a case where a trailing edge of the sheet passes through the nip portion after a leading edge of the sheet reaches the transfer unit, the control unit sets a rotation speed of the conveying unit to a first rotation speed, and wherein, before the trailing edge of the sheet passes through the nip portion in a state that a loop of the sheet is formed between the conveying unit and the transfer unit, the control unit sets the rotation speed of the conveying unit to a second rotation speed slower than the first rotation speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.3
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15797804', '14764538', '13869860', '15995919', '15229563']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8191875254649568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4992210075565846
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7871908736741197
- Mean Citation Score: 263.90236600000003
- Max Citation Score: 321.16278
- Similarity Product: 302.3572443174434

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