PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16272433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "350000"]

Abstract:
A cleaning device cleans a surface of a toner carrier carrying a toner, and the cleaning device includes: a first blade in contact with the surface of the toner carrier; a second blade made of a material harder than a material of the first blade and in contact with the surface of the toner carrier; and a lubricant applicator that applies a lubricant to the surface of the toner carrier, wherein the first blade, the second blade and the lubricant applicator are arranged in this order from an upstream side in a moving direction of the toner carrier based on a transfer position of the toner.

Claim (Index 13):
The cleaning device according to  claim 11 , wherein the plurality of rollers include a steering roller that is inclined by a steering mechanism to control a position of the endless belt in a width direction, and the first blade is disposed further downstream than of the steering roller on a downstream side of the transfer position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40426
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12019317', '12659055', '12893869', '13276619', '12591916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8273792601702441
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488788130794351
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7935201472326548
- Mean Citation Score: 218.544652
- Max Citation Score: 222.96234
- Similarity Product: 148.4064316949916

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

Dataset: test