PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16131565
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["271", "225000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a sheet conveying apparatus. The sheet conveying apparatus includes a conveying roller pair ( 58 ) for conveying a sheet, a registration roller pair ( 57 ) disposed downstream of the conveying roller pair ( 58 ) and a guide portion for guiding the sheet conveyed to the registration roller pair ( 57 ) by the conveying roller pair ( 58 ) such that the sheet is deflected. Further, the guide portion guides the sheet such that a number of deflection nodes changes according to stiffness of the sheet.

Claim (Index 9):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a sheet conveying apparatus; and an image forming portion configured to form an image on a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying apparatus, wherein the sheet conveying apparatus includes:\n a conveying roller pair configured to convey the sheet; \n a registration roller pair disposed downstream of the conveying roller pair, for correcting skew feeding of the sheet with a leading end of the sheet conveyed by the conveying roller pair abutting against the registration roller pair; and \n a guide portion configured to guide the sheet conveyed to the registration roller pair by the conveying roller pair such that the sheet is deflected, \n wherein the guide portion includes a movable guide that is movable from a first position where an abutting portion of the guide portion for abutting the sheet that is conveyed is located on one side of a nip line of the conveying roller pair to a second position where the abutting portion is located on the other side of the nip line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14832008', '14662362', '14339616', '15585786', '14677016']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7471330386271186
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5095872360622015
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7233784583706269
- Mean Citation Score: 309.8991640000001
- Max Citation Score: 318.4956
- Similarity Product: 245.7974141222477

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