PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "128000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a charging member, a light source, and a light quantity lowering member. The light quantity lowering member is provided so that a lowering amount of a quantity of a part of light reflected by a surface of a member at each of end portions of a charging region where the surface of the image bearing member is charged by the charging member is larger than that at a portion inside an associated end portion with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image bearing member.

Claim (Index 17):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a rotatable image bearing member configured to carry a toner image; a charging member configured to electrically charge a surface of said image bearing member; a transfer member configured to transfer the toner image from said image bearing member onto a transfer receiving material; a light source configured to emit discharging light for electrically discharging the surface of said image bearing member at a position between a contact position of said image bearing member with said transfer member and a contact position of said image bearing member with said charging member with respect to a rotational direction of said image bearing member; and a light quantity lowering member configured to lower a light quantity of the discharging light emitted from said light source to said image bearing member, wherein when a region of said image bearing member contacting said charging member is a charging region and a region of said image bearing member contacting said transfer member is a transfer region, the charging region is wider than the transfer region with respect to a rotational axis direction of said image bearing member, and wherein said light quantity lowering member is provided so that at least a part thereof is disposed between an end portion of the charging region and an end portion of the transfer region with respect to the rotational axis direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02128
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15074361', '15285592', '14574810', '14501819', '11736279']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7825255364248731
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5318893071879175
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7574619135011775
- Mean Citation Score: 262.06796
- Max Citation Score: 376.98642
- Similarity Product: 337.7231505787646

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

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