PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925916
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "227000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus and a post processing device, includes multiple position detectors and a position corrector. The multiple position detectors are aligned along a sheet conveying direction and configured to detect a side end of a sheet. The position corrector is configured to convey the sheet and correct a position of the sheet based on a positional deviation amount of the sheet, obtained by a detection result of the multiple position detectors. The positional deviation amount of the sheet is obtained by an extreme downstream position detector in the sheet conveying direction, of the multiple position detectors. A position of a subsequent sheet is corrected based on a sum of the positional deviation amount of the sheet and a positional deviation amount of the subsequent sheet.

Claim (Index 2):
The sheet conveying device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the multiple position detectors include:\n a first position detector disposed upstream from the position corrector in the sheet conveying device; \n a second position detector disposed downstream from the first position detector and downstream from the position corrector in the sheet conveying device; \n a third position detector disposed downstream from the position corrector in the sheet conveying direction; and \n a fourth position detector disposed downstream from the third position detector in the sheet conveying direction, \n wherein the first position detector and the second position detector perform a first detection that detects the position of the sheet, wherein the position corrector performs a primary correction by which the position of the sheet is corrected based on a positional deviation amount that is obtained by the first detection, wherein the second position detector and the third position detector perform a second detection that detects the position of the sheet, wherein the position corrector performs a secondary correction by which the position of the sheet is corrected based on a positional deviation amount obtained by the second detection, and wherein either one of the primary correction and the secondary correction is performed by a sum of a positional deviation amount of the sheet obtained by a detection result of the third positional detector and the fourth positional detector and a positional deviation amount of a subsequent sheet conveyed after the sheet, obtained by either one of the first detection and the second detection.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76923
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15906494', '14959780', '15899479', '15681550', '15832872']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7735820156324144
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5198642185452693
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7482102359236998
- Mean Citation Score: 321.001346
- Max Citation Score: 345.9175
- Similarity Product: 279.386938842237

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

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