PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15910075
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["271", "125000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a first casing, a pivotable second casing, a pivotable document cover, and a lock mechanism including a movable hook and a fixed hook. The second casing has a document support surface. When the second casing is at a first position in which the second casing covers an upper surface of the first casing, and the document cover is at a fourth position in which the document cover reveals the document support surface, the movable hook is engaged with the fixed hook. When the second casing is at the first position, and the document cover is at a third position in which the document cover covers the document support surface, the movable hook is disengaged from the fixed hook.

Claim (Index 8):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image forming unit; a first casing that houses the image forming unit therein; a second casing; a document cover; and a lock mechanism; wherein the second casing comprises:\n a document support surface located at an upper surface of the second casing, \n wherein the second casing is connected to the first casing, disposed above the first casing, and configured to pivot between a first position in which the second casing covers an upper surface of the first casing, and a second position in which the second casing reveals the upper surface of the first casing, wherein the document cover is connected to the second casing, disposed above the second casing, and configured to pivot between a third position in which the document cover covers the document support surface, and a fourth position in which the document cover reveals the document support surface, wherein the lock mechanism comprises:\n a fixed hook disposed at the first casing; \n a movable hook disposed in the second casing; \n a pressed portion configured to move in association with the movable hook; and \n an actuator disposed in the document cover, \n wherein when the second casing is at the first position and the document cover is at the fourth position, the movable hook is engaged with the fixed hook ( 61 ), and wherein when the second casing is at the first position and the document cover is at the third position, the actuator contacts the pressed portion to disengage the movable hook from the fixed hook.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.11628
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15017124', '15715908', '14667239', '11614612', '12010262']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7411332008604615
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4662451817880915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7136443989532246
- Mean Citation Score: 171.51874600000005
- Max Citation Score: 179.44318
- Similarity Product: 129.45070982961536

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

Dataset: test