PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908916
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "167000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes multiple image bearers, multiple image bearer gears, a drive source, an output gear, a drive transmission body, multiple relay gears, and multiple drive gears. A center of rotation of each of the multiple drive gears to which a driving force is transmitted from the drive source is located downstream from a corresponding one of the multiple relay gears in a rotation direction of the corresponding one of the multiple relay gears, relative to a virtual line segment connecting a center of rotation of the corresponding one of the multiple relay gears connected to the multiple drive gears and the center of rotation of a corresponding one of the multiple image bearer gears.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n multiple image bearers having respective shafts; multiple image bearer gears mounted on the respective shafts of the multiple image bearers; a drive source configured to rotate the multiple image bearers; an output gear configured to output a driving force applied by the drive source; a drive transmission body; multiple relay gears configured to receive and relay the driving force from the output gear directly or via the drive transmission body to the multiple image bearer gears; and multiple drive gears having respective shafts and configured to connect to the multiple relay gears and the multiple image bearer gears and to transmit the driving force from the multiple relay gears to the multiple image bearer gears, a center of rotation of each of the multiple drive gears to which the driving force is transmitted from the drive source being located downstream from a corresponding one of the multiple relay gears in a rotation direction of the corresponding one of the multiple relay gears, relative to a virtual line segment connecting a center of rotation of the corresponding one of the multiple relay gears connected to the multiple drive gears and a center of rotation of a corresponding one of the multiple image bearer gears.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73913
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14051652', '13207739', '15452542', '14741294', '11197548']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8188933933088963
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4915815008541416
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7861622040634209
- Mean Citation Score: 235.612602
- Max Citation Score: 261.56808
- Similarity Product: 185.7417529833126

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