PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16219582
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["347", "103000"]

Abstract:
A flexible belt is disclosed for use in a printing system. The belt comprises an endless strip which, in use, travels along a continuous path. Formations are provided along the sides of the strip which are capable of engaging with lateral tracks to place the belt under lateral tension, the lateral tracks further serving to constrain the belt to follow the continuous path.

Claim (Index 45):
The belt system of  claim 1  wherein on each side of the belt, the lateral formations are both in (i) rolling contact with at least one bearing element attached to a respective one of the lateral guiding tracks and (ii) in sliding contact with a static surface of the respective one of the lateral guiding tracks.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64286
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15790026', '15345238', '14382759', '15053017', '15439966']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8021239200601175
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5110454672471338
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7730160747788192
- Mean Citation Score: 279.665098
- Max Citation Score: 307.43176
- Similarity Product: 213.7670827179145

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