PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000042
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["271", "265020"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a detector to detect a lateral end face of a sheet, a first pair of rollers to hold and convey the sheet and swing in a direction parallel to a plane of the sheet, a second pair of rollers to convey the sheet together with the first pair of rollers, and a controller to rotate the first pair of rollers to multiple angles, detect time changes at each angle at the lateral end face while conveying the sheet, and determine a home position corresponding to a position where respective rates of the time changes of the sheet at the first and second nip regions are substantially identical to each other or a home position having a least difference of rates of the time changes of the sheet at the first and second nip regions.

Claim (Index 6):
The sheet conveying device according to  claim 3 , wherein the home position includes a first home position and a second home position such that, during the position correction operation, the first pair of rollers rotates angular to return to the first home position and moves laterally to return to the first home position after rotating and gripping the sheet to perform the position correction operation, and the sheet conveying device further comprises:\n a third drive device configured to cause the first pair of rollers to move from the second home position in a width direction based on the detection result of the detector, wherein the controller is configured to,\n cause the third drive device to move the first pair of rollers in the width direction from the second home position corresponding to an amount of lateral displacement of the sheet based on the detection result of the detector before the sheet has been conveyed to the first pair of rollers, and \n cause the third drive device to move the first pair of rollers by an amount same as the amount of lateral displacement of the sheet, to the second home position while the first pair of rollers is holding the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42188
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15832872', '14478389', '15925916', '15001947', '15681550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7971171262381416
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4987753740619697
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7672829510205244
- Mean Citation Score: 251.782888
- Max Citation Score: 283.6896700000001
- Similarity Product: 201.1820174065966

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