PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170908
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
An endless belt includes a base layer having an endless belt shape, an elastic layer provided on the base layer, and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer. The surface layer contains fluororesin. The surface layer is provided with at least one mark portion formed through alteration of the surface layer by spot irradiation with laser light having an ultraviolet-region wavelength.

Claim (Index 1):
An endless belt for an image forming apparatus, the endless belt comprising:\n an endless base layer; an elastic layer provided on the base layer; and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer, the surface layer containing fluororesin, the surface layer being provided with at least one mark portion, the at least one mark portion being formed through alteration of a part of the surface layer by irradiation of the surface layer with laser light having an ultraviolet-region wavelength.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71795
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15159408', '11119854', '12696216', '15481069', '13599144']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7996754975314792
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4692783204564759
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7666357798239788
- Mean Citation Score: 176.63737600000005
- Max Citation Score: 185.76472
- Similarity Product: 134.83655542710778

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

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