PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16039561
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "001130"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprises a housing, an input unit, a motor, and a controller. The input unit comprises an input section, a sensor configured to detect an object within an area facing the input section and output a signal in response to detection of an object within the area facing the input section, and a rotary coupling having an axis of rotation and connecting the input unit to the housing, such that the input unit is positionable by the swinging thereof along a path centered on the axis of rotation to position the input section to face two different directions. The motor is connected to the coupling, and the controller is configured to receive the signal from the sensor, and selectively control the motor to change the facing direction of the input section based on the value of the signal output by the sensor.

Claim (Index 11):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 9 , wherein\n the value of the signal output by the sensor is dependent on the presence or non-presence of an object within the area facing the sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47619
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14247650', '10657206', '15012952', '13228686', '14866633']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.475245945177458
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5025557097778512
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4779769216374974
- Mean Citation Score: 97.47729
- Max Citation Score: 103.27047
- Similarity Product: 54.7787976166463

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