PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887704
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "313000"]

Abstract:
A transfer device includes a rubbing member provided in contact with a transfer belt, a supporting member supporting the rubbing member, and a damping member configured to damp vibration of the transfer device. The damping member is fastened to the supporting member, and an end of the damping member in a width direction that is orthogonal to a direction of rotation of the transfer belt is a free end.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member configured to bear a toner image; a rotatable transfer belt to which the toner image on the image bearing member is transferred to a transfer material; and a transfer device provided in contact with the transfer belt and configured to transfer the toner image from the image bearing member to the transfer belt, wherein the transfer device includes\n a rubbing member provided in contact with the transfer belt; \n a supporting member supporting the rubbing member, \n a pressing member configured to press the supporting member so as to press the rubbing member toward the image bearing member; and \n a damping member fastened to the supporting member and configured to suppress an amplitude of the supporting member to be small so as to damp vibration of the transfer device by vibrating with respect to a moving direction of the transfer belt at a position of contact of the image bearing member and the transfer belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17647
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14093714', '14202212', '12138153', '12033954', '12923090']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8070161115805113
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4655203613142926
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7728665365538895
- Mean Citation Score: 202.727134
- Max Citation Score: 210.11377
- Similarity Product: 170.26623222137692

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