PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16211841
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has an image forming section configured to form an image on an image receiving medium conveyed along a conveyance path from a cassette thereto, a diverted conveyance path connected to the conveyance path at a first point on the conveyance path upstream of the image forming section, a movable guide that is controlled to guide the image receiving medium along a first path that includes a second point on the conveyance path downstream of the first point or a second path that includes the diverted conveyance path, a group of sensors positioned to detect at least two positions of a leading edge of the image receiving medium before the image receiving medium is guided by the movable guide, and a controller configured to control the movable guide to guide the image receiving medium along the first or second path based on detection results of the sensors.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of diverting an image receiving medium that is conveyed along a first path from a cassette to an image forming section to a second path that is branched from the first path at a first point along the first path that is upstream of the image forming section, said method comprising:\n detecting at least three positions of a leading edge of the image receiving medium using at least three sensors aligned along a width direction of the conveyance path, before the image receiving medium reaches the first point; determining an amount of skew of the image receiving medium when leading edge detection times are different for all of the three sensors; diverting the image receiving medium from the first path to the second path when the amount of skew of the image receiving medium is greater than a threshold amount; and correcting the skew of the image receiving medium at a second point along the first path that is downstream of the first point and upstream of the image forming section when the amount of skew is less than the threshold amount.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67241
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13081972', '13907555', '14689150', '12758307', '15073723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5021865045728474
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4752692304315251
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4994947771587151
- Mean Citation Score: 185.830186
- Max Citation Score: 191.85258
- Similarity Product: 151.11201930351734

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