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 7):
The intermediate transfer unit according to  claim 2 , wherein the suction duct is provided on the chassis of the filter unit and a hole allowing passage of the suction duct is formed in the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55932
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15276459', '15933141', '14222675', '12981698', '14446950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7862604533624289
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5010886394075942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7577432719669455
- Mean Citation Score: 186.465074
- Max Citation Score: 190.13278
- Similarity Product: 109.41044691858292

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