PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031513
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a recording medium, includes: a belt which is endless and rotationally driven; a drive roller which is wound around the belt to rotationally drive the belt; a position detector which is arranged along an axial direction of the drive roller to detect deviation of the belt; a steering roller which is wound around the belt and corrects the deviation of the belt detected by the position detector; and a controller which controls the steering roller, wherein the controller determines a deterioration state of the belt based on a change amount linked with change of a friction coefficient of the belt until a predetermined period elapses after starting use of the belt.

Claim (Index 8):
The image forming apparatus of  claim 7  wherein\n the controller determines that the greater the differential thrust load difference between when starting the use of the belt and when the predetermined period elapses, the worse the deterioration state of the belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09836
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14659301', '15948209', '14262980', '13905545', '13249682']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8063144055461239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4886492685405872
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7745478918455703
- Mean Citation Score: 158.15708600000005
- Max Citation Score: 166.5767
- Similarity Product: 97.70566222764252

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

Dataset: test