PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948319
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "001120"]

Abstract:
A sheet conveying apparatus includes a first rotating member, a second rotating member to convey a sheet in a first direction upon the first rotating member rotating, a third rotating member to convey the sheet in a second direction upon the first rotating member rotating, and a switching unit. The switching unit switches a position of the first rotating member between a first position at which the first and second or first and third rotating members convey the sheet, and a second position at which the first rotating member is retracted. Before a rear end of the sheet has been conveyed by the first rotating member and the second rotating member, the switching unit moves the first rotating member from the first position towards the second position. The switching unit stops a movement of the first rotating member at a position between the first position and the second position.

Claim (Index 10):
The sheet conveying apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a detection member disposed upstream of the first rotating member in the first direction and configured to detect a front end of the sheet that is conveyed,\n wherein, in a case where a first sheet and a second sheet succeeding the first sheet are conveyed continuously after the switching unit has moved the first rotating member from the first position towards the second position by having the stopping unit stop the movement of the first rotating member, a conveyance of the first sheet is stopped while the first sheet is held by the second rotating member and the third rotating member, and wherein, in a case in which a predetermined time in which a front end of the second sheet has not been detected by the detection member has passed, the switching unit moves the first rotating member from a position where the first rotating member had been stopped to the first position and the first sheet is conveyed in the second direction by the first rotating member and the third rotating member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.51111
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15703816', '15716339', '15388219', '15091387', '11945738']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5006938011909647
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5299420002544429
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5036186210973126
- Mean Citation Score: 296.3393
- Max Citation Score: 336.79898
- Similarity Product: 265.2384592551362

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

Dataset: test