PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["271", "265020"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a detector to detect a lateral end face of a sheet, a first pair of rollers to hold and convey the sheet and swing in a direction parallel to a plane of the sheet, a second pair of rollers to convey the sheet together with the first pair of rollers, and a controller to rotate the first pair of rollers to multiple angles, detect time changes at each angle at the lateral end face while conveying the sheet, and determine a home position corresponding to a position where respective rates of the time changes of the sheet at the first and second nip regions are substantially identical to each other or a home position having a least difference of rates of the time changes of the sheet at the first and second nip regions.

Claim (Index 8):
The sheet conveying device according to  claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to cause the first pair of rollers to hold and convey the sheet at each of the multiple angles and determine the home position, before a regular conveyance process associated with the position correction operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42188
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15832872', '14478389', '15925916', '15001947', '15681550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7975068783238569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4954484802576405
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7673010385172353
- Mean Citation Score: 251.782888
- Max Citation Score: 283.6896700000001
- Similarity Product: 214.95287089971072

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