PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038666
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["271", "251000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveyance apparatus including: an oblique-feed unit configured to convey a sheet by imparting to the sheet nipped a force in a direction inclined relative to a sheet conveyance direction so that the sheet approaches an abutment surface in the width direction as the sheet proceeds downstream in the sheet conveyance direction; a drive unit configured to drive the oblique-feed unit; a change unit configured to change the force of the oblique-feed unit; and a control unit configured to control the drive unit and the change unit so that, after causing the sheet to abut against the abutment surface in a first state in which the oblique-feed unit is driven at a first speed, the oblique-feed unit is put into a second state in which the oblique-feed unit is driven at a second speed higher than the first speed and the force is weaker than in the first state.

Claim (Index 8):
The sheet conveyance apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the oblique-feed unit has a roller member which is rotatable around an axis inclined relative to the width direction so as to go upstream in the sheet conveyance direction as the axis approaches the abutment surface in the width direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80357
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12797126', '15229563', '12499333', '15098815', '15091387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7873582061957515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4833150291670942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7569538884928857
- Mean Citation Score: 222.699022
- Max Citation Score: 236.52058
- Similarity Product: 179.00951644064307

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test