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 16):
The sheet conveying device according to  claim 15 ,\n wherein, when the pair of sheet holding rollers is moved in at least one of the width direction and the rotation direction based on the detection result of the first contact image sensor and the detection result of the second contact image sensor, the lateral displacement amount of the sheet is detected based on a mean value of the lateral displacement amount of the sheet detected by the first contact image sensor and the lateral displacement amount of the sheet detected by the second contact image sensor, and the angular displacement amount of the sheet is detected based on a value obtained by dividing a difference of the lateral displacement amount of the sheet detected the first contact image sensor and the angular displacement amount of the sheet detected by the second contact image sensor by a separation distance of the first contact image sensor and the second contact image sensor in the sheet conveying direction.

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): 0.7650884558554925
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.523640506043083
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7409436608742515
- Mean Citation Score: 304.1171020000001
- Max Citation Score: 354.1884
- Similarity Product: 273.70572213335043

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