PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "128000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a charging member, a light source, and a light quantity lowering member. The light quantity lowering member is provided so that a lowering amount of a quantity of a part of light reflected by a surface of a member at each of end portions of a charging region where the surface of the image bearing member is charged by the charging member is larger than that at a portion inside an associated end portion with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image bearing member.

Claim (Index 14):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 13 , wherein said light quantity lowering member is disposed at a position where said light quantity lowering member does not overlap with the said first light source with respect to the rotational axis direction so that the light quantity of the discharging light emitted toward the transfer region is not lowered.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02128
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15074361', '15285592', '14574810', '14501819', '11736279']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8036540765404087
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5332969124387398
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7766183601302418
- Mean Citation Score: 262.06796
- Max Citation Score: 376.98642
- Similarity Product: 253.17061408908245

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

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