PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005838
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "498000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image former forming a toner image on a long sheet; a main conveyance path conveying the long sheet to the image former; and a double-side conveyance path which branches off from a first side, in the main conveyance path, downstream of the image former in a conveyance direction of the long sheet, and which conveys the long sheet to a second side upstream of the image former by reversing the conveyance direction at a point of switching back to invert the long sheet. The double-side conveyance path includes, in a downstream side in the conveyance direction before the switching back, a merging pathway connected to the second side upstream of the image former in the main conveyance path, and a first introducer introducing into the merging pathway a head of the long sheet in the conveyance direction before the switching back.

Claim (Index 8):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 7 , wherein:\n the second introducer forms a step relative to an inner sheet guide of the merging pathway so as to receive the head of the long sheet in the conveyance direction before the switching back.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01923
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13845793', '15661425', '12234059', '12222434', '15091387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5334563479362904
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4920620593568049
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5293169190783419
- Mean Citation Score: 199.34951
- Max Citation Score: 203.80441
- Similarity Product: 144.0252414328718

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

Dataset: test