PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["358", "001120"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer section that transfers an image onto a sheet, a sheet conveying member that is provided upstream of the transfer section in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the sheet, and a hardware processor that controls displacement of the sheet conveying member in such a way that the sheet is displaced along the width direction of the sheet. The hardware processor performs first displacement control in which the sheet conveying member is displaced in a direction which is specified in advance with respect to the sheet and in which an edge of the sheet in the width direction is directed toward a target position and second displacement control in which the sheet conveying member is displaced in the direction opposite the direction of the first displacement.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the hardware processor performs the first displacement control and the second displacement control after a front end of the sheet enters the transfer section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56604
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15959408', '14478389', '14080172', '12499333', '12623678']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5542081350648528
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5484590058413998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5536332221425075
- Mean Citation Score: 281.1271720000001
- Max Citation Score: 405.62418
- Similarity Product: 309.58240159305814

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

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