PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005785
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["347", "224000"]

Abstract:
A light scanning device includes: a first semiconductor laser  44 a  that emits a light beam L 1;  a polygonal mirror  42  that deflects the light beam L 1;  a reflective mirror  64 a  that reflects the light beam L 1  deflected by the polygonal mirror  42  and causes the light beam L 1  to enter a photosensitive drum  13;  and a BD sensor  72  that detects the light beam L 1  deflected by the polygonal mirror  42.  The light scanning device scans the photosensitive drum  13  with the light beam L 1  and set scanning timing of the photosensitive drum  13  using the light beam L 1  based on detection timing of the light beam L 1  using the BD sensor  72.  The BD sensor  72  is arranged in the position farther from the polygonal mirror  42  than the last reflective mirror  64 a  that reflects the light beam L 1  immediately before entering the photosensitive drum  13  and arranged inside a scanning angle range α of the light beam L 1  corresponding to an effective scan area of the photosensitive drum  13.

Claim (Index 10):
A light scanning device, comprising:\n a light-emitting element; a deflecting section configured to deflect a light beam emitted from the light-emitting element; at least one reflective mirror configured to reflect the light beam and cause the light beam to enter a scan object, the light beam being emitted from the light-emitting element and deflected by the deflecting section; and a BD sensor configured to detect the light beam deflected by the deflecting section, wherein the light scanning device is configured to scan the scan object with the light beam and set scanning timing of the scan object using the light beam based on detection timing of the light beam using the BD sensor, the BD sensor is mounted on a BD substrate that is disposed outside a side wall of a housing of the light scanning device and that is fixed in a recess provided in the side wall of the housing, the light scanning device further includes a detecting mirror configured to reflect the light beam deflected by the deflecting section to cause the light beam to enter the BD sensor, and the detecting mirror is disposed outside in a main-scanning direction of the scan object relative to the BD sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76812
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14980063', '14433710', '14267223', '14433432', '12046591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7620665941127903
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6012271238185254
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7459826470833638
- Mean Citation Score: 404.80694
- Max Citation Score: 525.6756
- Similarity Product: 486.2423850840568

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

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