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 4):
The sheet conveyance apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a first conveyance unit disposed upstream of the oblique-feed unit in the sheet conveyance direction and configured to convey the sheet downstream in the sheet conveyance direction; and a detector configured to detect the sheet at a detection position downstream of the first conveyance unit in the sheet conveyance direction, wherein the control unit performs a changeover from the first state to the second state based on a detection signal from the detector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80357
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12797126', '15229563', '12499333', '15098815', '15091387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7668051820498696
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4808395104778364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7382086148926663
- Mean Citation Score: 222.699022
- Max Citation Score: 236.52058
- Similarity Product: 179.41610893177986

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