PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150811
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
An intermediate transfer unit includes an intermediate transfer belt, a plurality of transfer rollers, a housing, and a filter unit. The intermediate transfer belt is mounted around a drive roller and a driven roller and capable of traveling in an endless path around the rollers. The housing holds the intermediate transfer belt and the transfer rollers. The filter unit includes: a suction portion; an exhaust portion; and a rectangular chassis provided internally with an upstream filter and a downstream filter both capable of collecting powder particles. The filter unit is disposed inside of the intermediate transfer belt so that a direction of length of the chassis is oriented parallel to a direction of width of the intermediate transfer belt perpendicular to a direction of travel of the intermediate transfer belt, and the filter unit is fixed to the housing.

Claim (Index 1):
An intermediate transfer unit comprising:\n an intermediate transfer belt mounted around two belt rollers to travel in an endless path around the belt rollers; a plurality of transfer rollers that are disposed opposite to a plurality of image carriers with the intermediate transfer belt in between, the plurality of image carriers being aligned along an outer periphery of the intermediate transfer belt and allowing respective toner images to be formed thereon, and transfers the toner images from the image carriers to the outer periphery of the intermediate transfer belt; a housing that journals the intermediate transfer belt and the transfer rollers; and a filter unit including a suction portion provided at a front end thereof to suck air therethrough, an exhaust portion provided at a rear end thereof to exhaust the air therethrough, and a rectangular chassis provided internally with a filter capable of collecting powder particles, wherein the filter unit is disposed inside of the intermediate transfer belt mounted around the two belt rollers so that a direction of length of the chassis equal to a direction of the air flowing through an interior of the chassis is oriented parallel to a direction of width of the intermediate transfer belt perpendicular to a direction of travel of the intermediate transfer belt, and the filter unit is fixed to the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55932
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15276459', '15933141', '14222675', '12981698', '14446950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.771160246129527
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4682160049333412
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7408658220099086
- Mean Citation Score: 186.465074
- Max Citation Score: 190.13278
- Similarity Product: 150.63161407817125

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

Dataset: test