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 19):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a storage portion configured to store a sheet; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet stored in the storage portion; a stack unit on which the sheet discharged after an image has been formed on the discharged sheet with the image forming unit is to be stacked; a first rotating member configured to rotate in one direction; a second rotating member configured to convey, together with the first rotating member, a sheet in a first direction upon rotation of the first rotating member, wherein the first direction is a direction in which the sheet is conveyed from the image forming unit towards the stack unit; a third rotating member configured to convey, together with the first rotating member, the sheet in a second direction upon rotation of the first rotating member, wherein the second direction is a direction different from the first direction; and a switching unit configured to switch a position of the first rotating member between a first position at which the first rotating member conveys the sheet with the second rotating member or the third rotating member, and a second position at which the first rotating member is retracted relative to the first position, wherein, before a rear end of the sheet conveyed in the first direction 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, and wherein the switching unit includes a stopping unit configured to stop a movement of the first rotating member at a position between the first position and the second position after the switching unit has moved the first rotating member from the first position towards the second position.

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): 0.5006764026300602
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5294559413586543
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5035543565029196
- Mean Citation Score: 296.3393
- Max Citation Score: 336.79898
- Similarity Product: 271.260914399004

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