PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031334
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "100000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an endless belt; an image bearing member that bears a toner image and contacts with the outer circumferential surface of the belt at a transfer position for transferring the toner image to the belt, the transfer position being disposed downstream; a transfer roller configured to transfer the toner image from the image bearing to the belt and contact with an inner circumferential surface of the belt at a contact position, the contact position does not overlap with the transfer position as viewed from the thickness direction of the belt; a biasing member that biases the transfer toward the inner circumferential surface of the belt, and a position of the transfer roller is set to a balanced position between a biasing force by the transfer roller pressing the inner circumferential surface of the belt and the drag received by the transfer roller from the belt.

Claim (Index 14):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 13 , wherein the second biasing member has a higher biasing force than the first biasing member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11668819', '13877447', '11866079', '13877444', '13644471']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8585060808413543
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5095723835069881
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8236127111079177
- Mean Citation Score: 309.03748
- Max Citation Score: 318.29535
- Similarity Product: 219.03245617380736

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