PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16210661
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a sensor assembly having a window and a sensor which senses a developer through the window, and a shutter device which opens and closes the window, and thereby sensing in a sensible state is maintained, and a lifetime thereof is extendable.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a developing unit to develop a visible image from an electrostatic latent image through a developer; a transfer member to rotate in a first direction and to which the developer is transferred to transfer the developer onto a printing medium; a sensor assembly disposed to sense the developer transferred onto the transfer member, the sensor assembly including,\n a sensor to sense the developer transferred onto the transfer member through a corresponding window between the sensor and the transfer member; and \n a shutter device having a shutter movably provided with a displacement in the first direction of rotation of the transfer member to open and close the window.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5625
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15511953', '15672427', '14561819', '16191032', '15508731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7696839179266332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5148414946650041
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7441996756004702
- Mean Citation Score: 223.061068
- Max Citation Score: 337.4999
- Similarity Product: 315.2444449312032

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