PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912248
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "301000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt, an image forming unit, a transfer unit, a roller configured to transport the sheet to the transfer unit, a light emitting unit configured to irradiate a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt along a width direction of the intermediate transfer belt, a light reception unit configured to detect a quantity of light reflected from the portion of the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt, and a pressure applying unit arranged between the roller and the transfer unit in a sheet conveying direction, and configured to press a portion of the sheet in a width direction of the sheet that overlaps with the portion of the outer surface of the intermediate transfer belt.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a control unit configured to control the density of the toner image formed on the outer peripheral surface of the photosensitive drum based on the detected quantity of the reflected light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95652
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13739206', '15392249', '10694813', '14856649', '15629921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7840470465937319
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4802236234993012
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7536647042842888
- Mean Citation Score: 227.603888
- Max Citation Score: 230.96573
- Similarity Product: 185.8198005530036

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

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