PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259370
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "361000"]

Abstract:
A sensor unit is at least partially disposed in a region below an upper end of a reversing roller, above a lower end of a second rotary member, and outside a duplex conveying path.

Claim (Index 11):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming unit configured to form an unfixed image on a recording material; a fixing unit configured to fix the unfixed image on the recording material; a discharge reversing portion configured to be able to selectively discharge the recording material having the fixed image thereon out of the image forming apparatus and reverse the recording material in such a manner that instead of a leading edge, a trailing edge of the recording material that has passed through the fixing unit is conveyed; a duplex conveying path configured to guide the recording material reversed by the discharge reversing portion to the image forming unit again; a first conveying path configured to guide the recording material from the fixing unit to the discharge reversing portion; a second conveying path configured to guide the recording material reversed by the discharge reversing portion to the duplex conveying path; a reading unit configured to read an image formed on the recording material; a third conveying path configured to guide the recording material reversed by the discharge reversing portion to the reading unit; and a fourth conveying path configured to guide the recording material that has passed through the reading unit to the duplex conveying path, wherein a front and back orientation of the recording material coming from the discharge reversing portion and passing through the third conveying path, the reading unit, the fourth conveying path, and the duplex conveying path is the same as a front and back orientation of the recording material coming from the discharge reversing portion and passing through the second conveying path and the duplex conveying path, the front and back orientation being an orientation of a front surface on which an image is formed first and a back surface opposite the front surface; and the second conveying path is disposed between the reading unit and the fixing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.23333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13955303', '14252967', '12727072', '13368017', '12845185']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8203747193688662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826880882332102
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7866060562553006
- Mean Citation Score: 252.402158
- Max Citation Score: 260.88913
- Similarity Product: 211.9359839972168

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

Dataset: test