PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16205493
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["271", "228000"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a plurality of position detectors, a leading end detector, and a position adjuster. The plurality of position detectors is configured to detect a position of a sheet. The leading end detector is configured to detect a leading end of the sheet. The position adjuster is configured to, based on a detection result obtained by the plurality of position detectors, rotate in a rotation direction of the sheet within a plane of conveyance of the sheet to change the position of the sheet the position adjuster grips the sheet under conveyance to cause the leading end detector to rotate with the position adjuster in the rotation direction of the sheet within the plane of conveyance of the sheet.

Claim (Index 11):
The sheet conveying device according to  claim 10 , wherein the shaft resides within a lateral guide portion to cause the holding body to be configured to move laterally in a width direction, the width direction being perpendicular to a sheet conveying direction of the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.97872
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16000042', '16001009', '15925916', '15832872', '15899479']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7880302518146455
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4964144948746795
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7588686761206489
- Mean Citation Score: 269.13025200000004
- Max Citation Score: 289.68924
- Similarity Product: 221.7738473972511

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

Dataset: test