PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16265718
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "101000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion that forms a toner image on a photosensitive member in accordance with image information, an intermediate transfer member that carries the toner image transferred from the photosensitive member, a transfer portion that transfers the toner image carried by the intermediate transfer member onto a recording medium, a cleaning portion that collects toner remaining on the intermediate transfer member, and a toner collecting container into which the toner conveyed from the cleaning portion is collected. In the image forming apparatus, the toner collecting container is disposed in a region above the intermediate transfer member.

Claim (Index 12):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the toner collecting container overlaps the intermediate transfer member as viewed in the direction of gravity, and the toner collecting container is disposed such that the area of the overlapping portion is greater than or equal to 50% and less than or equal to 90% of the area of the toner collecting container, where the area of the toner collecting container is 100%.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31915
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12477776', '13692724', '12024274', '13349912', '13075754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8439911611175853
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5025337534956986
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8098454203553966
- Mean Citation Score: 279.25339599999995
- Max Citation Score: 284.7759700000001
- Similarity Product: 191.43668315723545

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