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 6):
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 reversing portion configured to 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 convey the recording material reversed by the reversing portion to the image forming unit again; a document feeding portion configured to feed a document; a document discharge portion configured to discharge the document; a document conveying path configured to connect the document feeding portion to the document discharge portion; a reading unit disposed in the document conveying path and including a sensor that reads an image on the document; and two conveying paths, one being configured to connect the reversing portion to the document conveying path and the other being configured to connect the document conveying path to the duplex conveying path, wherein the reading unit has a capability of reading a fixed image on the recording material and an image on the document.

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): 0.8199918018265423
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4857659985669449
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7865692215005826
- Mean Citation Score: 252.402158
- Max Citation Score: 260.88913
- Similarity Product: 202.6169022903532

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