PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "114000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a cover, a cooperating member, a switching member, a detector, and a controller. The cover opens and closes an aperture in a main body of the image forming apparatus. The cooperating member moves to an activated position when the cover is opened for the first time. The activated position is a position where the cooperating member is enabled to cooperate with the cover. The switching member moves in cooperation with the cover through the cooperating member in the activated position as the cover is opened and closed. The detector detects an open state or a closed state of the cover according to the movement of the switching member. The controller determines that image formation is enabled when the detector has detected the closed state of the cover.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein\n the cover is pivotable in a horizontal direction, the switching member is movable in a vertical direction, the cooperating member is movable in the horizontal direction between the inactivated position and the activated position, the protrusion has:\n a first pushing surface extending in a direction intersecting with a pivoting direction of the cover; and \n a second pushing surface inclined in a closing direction of the cover, \n the cooperating member has:\n a first pushed surface configured to be in contact with the first pushing surface of the protrusion when the cooperating member is in the inactivated position; and \n a second pushed surface configured to come in contact with the second pushing surface of the protrusion when the cooperating member is in the activated position, \n the first pushing surface of the protrusion pushes the first pushed surface of the cooperating member to keep the cooperating member retracted in the inactivated position before delivery of the image forming apparatus, when the cover is opened for the first time after delivery of the image forming apparatus, the first pushing surface of the protrusion separates from the first pushed surface of the cooperating member and the biasing member biases the cooperating member into the activated position, and when the cover is closed after the cover has been opened for the first time, the second pushing surface of the protrusion comes in contact with the second pushed surface of the cooperating member biased into the activated position to push the cooperating member in the vertical direction and move the switching member in the vertical direction with the cooperating member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64815
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14876180', '15338432', '15428382', '11566897', '13164303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8377089530175885
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4877621466780028
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8027142723836299
- Mean Citation Score: 229.35721
- Max Citation Score: 253.89095
- Similarity Product: 190.87562497264744

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

Dataset: test