PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946239
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "297000"]

Abstract:
A transport device includes a powder applying device and a guidance member. The powder applying device is provided in a guide path through which a sheet is guided toward an image holding body holding a toner image to be transferred onto the sheet, and applies powder to end portions of the sheet in a transport direction. The guidance member is provided on a side facing the powder applying device in the guide path, and guides the sheet being transported through the guide path to the powder applying device.

Claim (Index 15):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image holding body configured to hold a toner image formed by developing an electrostatic latent image; and the transport device according to  claim 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11364
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15946009', '13893660', '15254268', '14030508', '15055731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7884562932878842
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.453935470417003
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7550042110007962
- Mean Citation Score: 147.06663799999995
- Max Citation Score: 172.0778
- Similarity Product: 138.34872896499633

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