PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926277
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "360000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet and a sheet conveying unit for conveying the sheet along a conveying path extending in a substantially horizontal direction in a lower portion of the image forming unit. The image forming apparatus includes a recovery container which is provided in front of the image forming unit and above the conveying path, and accommodates the waste toner discharged from the image forming unit. The image forming apparatus includes a waste toner conveying pipe that conveys the waste toner discharged from the image forming unit to the recovery container, without passing through the rear portion and the side portion of the image forming unit.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the waste toner conveying pipe includes a first and a second waste toner conveying pipes for conveying waste toner discharged from members having different functions constituting the image forming unit, the recovery container comprises a casing including an accommodating unit for storing waste toner, and a first and a second conveying units for conveying the waste toner in the casing, the casing comprises a plurality of first receiving ports for receiving the waste toner conveyed by the first waste toner conveying pipe, and a second receiving port provided below the plurality of the first receiving ports, for receiving the waste toner conveyed by the second waste toner conveying pipe, wherein the image forming apparatus further comprises a detection unit for detecting waste toner contained in the casing, at a detection position above the first conveying unit, wherein the first conveying unit equalizes height of upper surface of the waste toner accommodated in the accommodating unit, and the second conveying unit conveys the waste toner received from the second receiving port to a position above the detection position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5625
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15703466', '14140772', '14979745', '14141453', '15143788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8305544222649508
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4720734350474405
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7947063235431998
- Mean Citation Score: 221.312978
- Max Citation Score: 226.80377
- Similarity Product: 186.3828891095513

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