PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868305
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["271", "018100"]

Abstract:
A medium transporting apparatus includes an endless conveyor belt having an outer surface to which a sheet P adheres, at least two rollers, which are a first roller and a second roller, around which the conveyor belt extends. The second roller is located downstream of the first roller in a medium transporting direction. The medium transporting apparatus also includes a backing plate that supports an inner surface of the conveyor belt at a position between the first roller and the second roller. In the medium transporting apparatus, the backing plate includes a hollow-containing portion that is formed at an upstream end of the backing plate in the medium transporting direction. The hollow-containing portion has a plurality of hollows formed therein in a width direction that intersects the medium transporting direction. The plurality of hollows are formed in a support surface that supports the conveyor belt.

Claim (Index 6):
The medium transporting apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein\n the hollow-containing portion includes protection portions disposed at least at respective upstream ends of the support portions in the medium transporting direction, and the protection portions protect the conveyor belt that comes into contact with the support portions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58333
- Patent Class: 271.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14507087', '14470412', '14789606', '12342318', '13629906']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.719313068207627
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4871920409484506
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6961009654817094
- Mean Citation Score: 176.275306
- Max Citation Score: 179.21713
- Similarity Product: 115.7202191392696

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