PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16356018
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "121000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a chassis having an opening, a cover, photosensitive members, an intermediate transfer belt, a primary-transfer member, a secondary-transfer roller, a cleaner device, an external-sheet inlet, a waste toner container, a connector, and a conveying roller, which is arranged within the feeding path to feed the recording sheet inserted through the external-sheet inlet in the feeding path. The conveying roller is mounted on the waste toner container and removable from the chassis along with the waste toner container.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording sheet, comprising:\n a chassis having an opening formed on one side thereof; a photosensitive drum stored in the chassis; an intermediate transfer belt arranged to face the photosensitive drum; a first roller arranged in a lower position with respect to the intermediate transfer belt, the first roller being configured to convey the recording sheet from the one side of the chassis toward another side of the chassis opposite from the one side; and a unit configured to support the first roller, the unit being slidable between a drawn-out position, in which the first roller is drawn outside the chassis through the opening, and a stored position, in which the first roller is stored inside the chassis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16157668', '15599563', '15018910', '13073138', '14087184']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8631691148989314
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5335874927214774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.830210952681186
- Mean Citation Score: 392.97575
- Max Citation Score: 399.31482
- Similarity Product: 361.1737838596344

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