PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979103
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["271", "314000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveyance device includes a shape detecting portion, and a switch control portion. The shape detecting portion detects a shape of a sheet at a detection position located between a first conveyance member and an image forming position in a sheet conveyance path. The switch control portion, when the first conveyance member is determined to be in an accelerated state where it is accelerated from a stopped state to a driven state, switches an detection interval at which the shape of the sheet is detected by the shape detecting portion, to a first interval that corresponds to a rotation speed of the first conveyance member, and when the first conveyance member is determined to be in a decelerated state where it is decelerated from the driven state to the stopped state, switches the detection interval to a predetermined second interval.

Claim (Index 10):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 9 , further comprising:\n a restriction processing portion configured to restrict the image forming portion from forming an image beyond the sheet, based on the shape of the sheet detected by the shape detecting portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15177655', '13944909', '14878197', '11300560', '13238620']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6988240208967976
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5032820654167757
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6792698253487954
- Mean Citation Score: 195.266764
- Max Citation Score: 226.77283
- Similarity Product: 130.9594542911738

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