PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "364000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a sheet feed section and a conveyance control section. The sheet feed section is provided with a plurality of cassettes in which sheets of a plurality of categories are stored for each category of the sheets, and feeds a sheet stored in the cassettes. The conveyance control section enables, in a case in which a sheet is fed from a cassette in which sheets to be printed after the printing surfaces thereof are aligned are stored among the cassettes, a reversal unit reversing the front side and the back side of the sheet at the time when the sheet is fed to convey and discharge the sheet regardless of a printing method designated by a user.

Claim (Index 3):
A conveyance control method, comprising:\n feeding sheets from first and second cassettes configured to store the sheets; turning over the sheets; designating whether the first cassette or the second cassette; storing page data for forming an image on the sheets; conveying the sheets from the first cassette to a first conveyance path, and convey the sheets from a print section to a sheet discharge section, when the instruction to designate the first cassette is input and the page data is page data on one side of the sheet; conveying the sheets from the first cassette to the first conveyance path, convey the sheets from the first conveyance path to a second conveyance path, then merging to the first conveyance path the sheets from the second conveyance path, and convey the sheets from the first conveyance path to the sheet discharge section, when the instruction to designate the first cassette is input and page data is page data on both sides of the sheet; conveying the sheets from the second cassette to the first conveyance path, convey the sheets from the first conveyance path to the second conveyance path, then merging to the first conveyance path the sheets from the second conveyance path, and convey the sheets from the first conveyance path to the sheet discharge section, when the instruction to designate the second cassette is input; and the first conveyance path is to extend from the first and second cassettes to a sheet discharge section, the second conveyance path is to convey the sheets from the sheet discharge section to a reversal unit, then merging to the first conveyance path the sheets from the reversal unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04615
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14809636', '14693146', '14852710', '14109481', '14708092']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8031218035863549
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5166065885450414
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7744702820822235
- Mean Citation Score: 233.78846
- Max Citation Score: 354.62704
- Similarity Product: 300.6688747672653

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