PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976057
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "223000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transferor to rotate in a predetermined rotation direction, a plurality of image bearers disposed along the intermediate transferor to bear latent images, a plurality of developing devices to develop the latent images, a plurality of developer containers to contain developers, and a plurality of conveyance paths each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of developing devices and a respective one of the plurality of developer containers to supply the developers to the plurality of developing devices respectively. An arrangement of the plurality of developing devices in the predetermined rotation direction is configured to be changed without changing an arrangement of the plurality of developer containers. A layout of the plurality of conveyance paths is configured to be changed without changing connections between a supply source and a supply destination of the plurality of conveyance paths.

Claim (Index 12):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n further comprising a rotary portion, wherein the plurality of conveyance paths is a plurality of tubes, and wherein the rotary portion is attached to at least one of the plurality of tubes to rotate at least a part of the at least one of the plurality of tubes to prevent the at least one of the plurality of tubes from twisting.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15956790', '12253538', '12710412', '12881822', '12009391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8020104981163104
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.518620152298353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7736714635345148
- Mean Citation Score: 219.787874
- Max Citation Score: 349.51514
- Similarity Product: 216.55953837856887

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

Dataset: test