PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150811
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
An intermediate transfer unit includes an intermediate transfer belt, a plurality of transfer rollers, a housing, and a filter unit. The intermediate transfer belt is mounted around a drive roller and a driven roller and capable of traveling in an endless path around the rollers. The housing holds the intermediate transfer belt and the transfer rollers. The filter unit includes: a suction portion; an exhaust portion; and a rectangular chassis provided internally with an upstream filter and a downstream filter both capable of collecting powder particles. The filter unit is disposed inside of the intermediate transfer belt so that a direction of length of the chassis is oriented parallel to a direction of width of the intermediate transfer belt perpendicular to a direction of travel of the intermediate transfer belt, and the filter unit is fixed to the housing.

Claim (Index 8):
The intermediate transfer unit according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the filter unit comprises: the chassis: a plurality of first ribs disposed parallel to sidewalls of the chassis to rise from a bottom surface of the chassis toward an interior of the chassis and forming a first airflow path; and a plurality of second ribs disposed parallel to the sidewalls of the chassis to rise from a ceiling surface of the chassis toward the interior of the chassis and forming a second airflow path, wherein the filter is disposed in the interior of the chassis so as to be sandwiched by the plurality of first ribs and the plurality of second ribs with respective spaces left from the ceiling surface and the bottom surface of the chassis, and wherein the filter unit further comprises: a first shield plate that extends in a direction perpendicular to a direction of extension of the first ribs and the second ribs and is raised from the ceiling surface of the chassis toward the interior of the chassis to cover up a front end of the filter while forming a first gap with the bottom surface of the chassis; and a second shield plate that extends in the direction perpendicular to the direction of extension of the first ribs and the second ribs and is raised from the bottom surface of the chassis toward the interior of the chassis to cover up a rear end of the filter while forming a second gap with the ceiling surface of the chassis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55932
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15276459', '15933141', '14222675', '12981698', '14446950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7879591185616727
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911503567731461
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7582782423828199
- Mean Citation Score: 186.465074
- Max Citation Score: 190.13278
- Similarity Product: 122.79178274798154

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

Dataset: test