PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16210661
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a sensor assembly having a window and a sensor which senses a developer through the window, and a shutter device which opens and closes the window, and thereby sensing in a sensible state is maintained, and a lifetime thereof is extendable.

Claim (Index 20):
A sensor assembly to sense a developer transferred onto a transfer member to transfer the developer onto a print medium of an image forming apparatus, the sensor assembly comprising:\n a sensor to sense the developer transferred onto the transfer member through a corresponding window between the sensor and the transfer member; and a shutter movably provided with a displacement in the first direction of rotation of the transfer member to open the corresponding window to allow the sensor to sense the developer and to close the corresponding window.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5625
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15511953', '15672427', '14561819', '16191032', '15508731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7697864822041153
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5182013997201852
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7446279739557222
- Mean Citation Score: 223.061068
- Max Citation Score: 337.4999
- Similarity Product: 272.78242671434884

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

Dataset: test