PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259370
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "361000"]

Abstract:
A sensor unit is at least partially disposed in a region below an upper end of a reversing roller, above a lower end of a second rotary member, and outside a duplex conveying path.

Claim (Index 5):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming unit configured to form an unfixed image on a recording material; a fixing unit including a first rotary member configured to come into contact with the unfixed image on the recording material and a second rotary member configured to form a fixing nip with the first rotary member, the fixing unit being configured to fix the unfixed image on the recording material; a reversing portion configured to reverse the recording material in such a manner that instead of a leading edge, a trailing edge of the recording material that has passed through the fixing unit is conveyed; a duplex conveying path configured to convey the recording material reversed by the reversing portion to the image forming unit again; a document feeding portion configured to feed a document; a document discharge portion configured to discharge the document; a document conveying path configured to connect the document feeding portion to the document discharge portion; and a reading unit including a sensor that reads an image, wherein the duplex conveying path is partially a common conveying path shared with the document conveying path; the reading unit is disposed on a side of the common conveying path facing one of two surfaces of the recording material reversed by the reversing portion, the one being a surface that has more recently come into contact with the first rotary member; and the reading unit has a capability of reading a fixed image on the recording material and an image on the document.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.23333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13955303', '14252967', '12727072', '13368017', '12845185']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8190641845788802
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4932071986484203
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7864784859858341
- Mean Citation Score: 252.402158
- Max Citation Score: 260.88913
- Similarity Product: 180.09938285423874

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