PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16131876
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a carriage mounts a recording head for discharging droplets, and moves in a main scan direction. A guide member slidably guides the carriage. An encoder scale is arranged along the main scan direction. An encoder sensor reads the encoder scale. The carriage includes a head mounting part for mounting the recording head, and a sensor attaching part for attaching the encoder sensor. The sensor attaching part is provided so as to be extended from the head mounting part. The encoder scale is arranged at a location which the encoder sensor can read. A partition member is provided to separate the head mounting part from the sensor attaching part in the carriage. The head mounting part is arranged in a first space, and the sensor attaching part and the encoder scale are arranged in a second space separated from the first apace by the partition member.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the encoder sensor is disposed so as to extend downward from a bottom surface of the sensor attachment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67213
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13990096', '13448474', '13048088', '12780520', '13027924']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7751282130295962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5250715032435735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.750122542050994
- Mean Citation Score: 254.14170000000004
- Max Citation Score: 347.88800000000015
- Similarity Product: 240.8843414125444

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