PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200270
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a duct through which air taken in from outside a housing is sent into the housing, a blower fan provided at an upstream end of the duct, a toner bottle provided facing a wall surface of the duct, and a fixing section provided on a downstream side of the toner bottle. A component-facing section facing the toner bottle is formed to be smaller in cross-sectional area than a fan placement section. Therefore, by absorbing heat of air around the toner bottle via a wall of the component-facing section, the component-facing section prevents the toner bottle from becoming hot.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a blower fan that sucks in air from outside a housing and sends the air; and a duct though which the air sent by the blower fan is guided into the housing, wherein assuming that a direction that the air is sent through the duct is a blowing direction and an area of a cross-section of the duct orthogonal to the blowing direction is a duct cross-sectional area, the blower fan is placed in a fan placement section of the duct, the duct has a component-facing section, provided on a downstream side of the fan placement section in the blowing direction, that is smaller in the duct cross-sectional area than the fan placement section, and at least a part of a wall constituting the component-facing section serves as a part of a wall forming an accommodation space of an internal component that is disposed inside the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88136
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14321908', '14645961', '15986673', '12615438', '15215101']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8034033871393472
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4664481791002502
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7697078663354375
- Mean Citation Score: 196.11845
- Max Citation Score: 200.20181
- Similarity Product: 155.7343827192891

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