PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918649
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["358", "497000"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes: a contact glass provided at an upper surface of a main body of the apparatus to set a manuscript thereon, an image sensor being positioned below the contact glass and having a reading surface on contact glass side for reading an image from the manuscript on the contact glass, a carriage supporting the image sensor accommodated in a sensor container formed to have a recess open to the contact glass side, a rail member slidably supporting the carriage, and a biasing member biasing the image sensor to the contact glass side via a biased portion adjacent to the reading surface of the image sensor. An upper end of the biasing member is positioned below the contact glass and above the lower surface of the image sensor.

Claim (Index 2):
The image reading apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the spring is closer to one end of the image sensor in the first direction than to the guide member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50909
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15581907', '14881149', '15085273', '14525006', '13627868']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5646531478617298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5316943690189321
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5613572699774501
- Mean Citation Score: 323.513612
- Max Citation Score: 356.86066
- Similarity Product: 354.7387947275399

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