PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15889045
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "004000"]

Abstract:
A light scanning apparatus including: a first holder attached to a housing and configured to hold a first laser light source; a second holder attached to the housing and configured to hold a second laser light source; and a lens to which the laser lights are first incident, wherein the first holder and the second holder are attached to the housing in mutually different positions in a rotation axis direction of a rotary polygon mirror and in an optical axis direction of the lens, so that a first incident light path from the first laser light source to the rotary polygon mirror is placed between a second incident light path from the second laser light source to the rotary polygon mirror and the lens, and the first holder and the second holder overlap one another in the rotation axis direction.

Claim (Index 15):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a first photosensitive member; a second photosensitive member; a light scanning apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of optical elements including a mirror and a lens, \n a housing configured to house the plurality of optical elements therein, \n a first laser light source having a plurality of light emitting points to emit laser lights so as to form a latent image on the first photosensitive member, \n a first holder attached to the housing and configured to hold the first laser light source, \n a second laser light source having a plurality of light emitting points to emit laser lights so as to form a latent image on the second photosensitive member, \n a second holder attached to the housing and configured to hold the second laser light source, \n a rotary polygon mirror configured to be rotated and provided with a plurality of reflection surfaces by which the laser lights emitted from each of the first laser light source and the second laser light source are deflected, and \n a lens, of the plurality of optical elements, to which the laser lights emitted from each of the first laser light source and the second laser light source and deflected by the rotary polygon mirror are first incident, \n wherein the laser lights emitted from each of the first laser light source and the second laser light source are incident to the rotary polygon mirror without being reflected by a mirror, \n wherein the first holder and the second holder are attached to the housing in mutually different positions in a rotation axis direction of the rotary polygon mirror and in an optical axis direction of the lens, and \n wherein the first holder and the second holder are attached to the housing so that a first incident light path of the laser lights emitted from the first laser light source and incident to the rotary polygon mirror is placed between a second incident light path of the laser lights emitted from the second laser light source and incident to the rotary polygon mirror and the lens, and a part of the first holder and a part of the second holder overlap one another in the rotation axis direction; \n a first developing device configured to develop the latent image formed on the first photosensitive member to form a toner image; a second developing device configured to develop the latent image formed on the second photosensitive member to form a toner image; a first transfer member configured to transfer the toner image formed by the first developing device to a transfer-receiving member; and a second transfer member configured to transfer the toner image formed by the second developing device to the transfer-receiving member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88235
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09392626', '15801033', '13866792', '14682850', '14885796']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8179367547589901
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4974057844872995
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.785883657731821
- Mean Citation Score: 260.374686
- Max Citation Score: 288.71875
- Similarity Product: 218.21045012213293

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

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