PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976057
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "223000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transferor to rotate in a predetermined rotation direction, a plurality of image bearers disposed along the intermediate transferor to bear latent images, a plurality of developing devices to develop the latent images, a plurality of developer containers to contain developers, and a plurality of conveyance paths each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of developing devices and a respective one of the plurality of developer containers to supply the developers to the plurality of developing devices respectively. An arrangement of the plurality of developing devices in the predetermined rotation direction is configured to be changed without changing an arrangement of the plurality of developer containers. A layout of the plurality of conveyance paths is configured to be changed without changing connections between a supply source and a supply destination of the plurality of conveyance paths.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , further comprising:\n a plurality of conveyance pumps each detachably coupled to a downstream opening of a respective one of the plurality of conveyance paths, a plurality of sub-hoppers each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of conveyance pumps and a respective one of the plurality of developing devices, wherein the arrangement of the plurality of process cartridges, an arrangement of the plurality of conveyance pumps, and an arrangement of the plurality of sub-hoppers in the predetermined rotation direction are configured to be changed without changing connections among the plurality of process cartridges, the plurality of conveyance pumps, and the plurality of sub-hoppers, and wherein the layout of the plurality of conveyance paths is configured to be changed without changing connections between the plurality of conveyance paths and the plurality of conveyance pumps.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15956790', '12253538', '12710412', '12881822', '12009391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.801626297425543
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5161058430713705
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7730742519901258
- Mean Citation Score: 219.787874
- Max Citation Score: 349.51514
- Similarity Product: 267.1257094894123

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

Dataset: test