PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16032802
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a conveyance path, a flipping conveyance path, a conveying mechanism and a hardware processor. The flipping conveyance path includes a side path connecting a first branch point in a downstream of the conveyance path to a junction in an upstream of the conveyance path and a re-feeding path connecting a second branch point in the side path to a re-feeding point in an upstream of the conveyance path. The hardware processor controls the conveying mechanism to perform (i) a conveyance operation to convey the sheet along the conveyance path, (ii) a draw-in operation to draw the sheet with the image into the side path, and (iii) a re-feeding operation to convey the sheet in a reverse direction to re-feed the flipped sheet from the re-feeding point to the conveyance path.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , further comprising:\n a detector which detects a presence or absence of the sheet individually at the pair of transferring members, the pair of fixing members and the conveyance roller pair disposed in the downstream of the conveyance path with respect to the junction, wherein in the draw-in operation, the hardware processor (i) specifies a pair at which arrival of the sheet is detected by the detector from among the pair of transferring members, the pair of fixing members and the conveyance roller pair disposed in the downstream of the conveyance path with respect to the junction, and (ii) serially separates the specified pair.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86792
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16005838', '14966623', '14386689', '13845793', '15819207']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5059175119636915
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4877976168928176
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5041055224566041
- Mean Citation Score: 203.825564
- Max Citation Score: 209.6602
- Similarity Product: 154.06670879805088

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