PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877708
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "101000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a removal roller, a collection roller, a housing, a screw, and a seal. The removal roller rotates while in contact with the intermediate transfer belt and removes residual toner from the intermediate transfer belt. The collection roller rotates while in contact with the removal roller so as to collect, from the removal roller by electrostatic force, waste toner that is the residual toner removed by the removal roller. The housing has an upper opening for receiving the waste toner collected by the collection roller and stores the waste toner. The screw conveys the waste toner stored in the housing. The seal comes into contact with the collection roller and closes a gap between the collection roller and the housing at the upper opening.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein\n the collection roller rotates in a direction for causing a downward force to act on a part of the seal that comes into contact with the collection roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52632
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15861545', '14094036', '15420718', '14091220', '15873519']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7969992104665236
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5041791126283589
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7677172006827071
- Mean Citation Score: 222.614164
- Max Citation Score: 254.18391
- Similarity Product: 167.65492440997124

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