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 3):
The sheet conveyance device according to  claim 2 , further comprising:\n a second conveyance member configured to be rotationally driven at a predetermined second speed at the image forming position so as to convey the sheet, wherein the first conveyance member transits from a first driven state to a second driven state, and then transits from the second driven state to the decelerated state before a rear end of the sheet passes the detection position, wherein in the first driven state, the first conveyance member is driven at a first speed that is higher than the second speed, and in the second driven state, the first conveyance member is driven at the second speed, and the second interval is set in accordance with the second speed.

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): 0.7047324501487056
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4735774542021627
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6816169505540514
- Mean Citation Score: 195.266764
- Max Citation Score: 226.77283
- Similarity Product: 190.7492328295606

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