PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918038
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "043000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus operable in conjunction with a cartridge having a memory and a terminal, which is electrically connected with the memory and arranged on a downward face of the cartridge, is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a housing having an opening, a controller, and a supporter to support the cartridge at an attachment position. The supporter includes a guiding portion to guide the cartridge there-along and a memory electrode electrically connected with the controller. The guiding portion guides the cartridge being attached to the attachment position to descend as the cartridge approaches from the opening to the attachment position. The memory electrode protrudes upward at a position lower than the terminal on the cartridge and has a height to contact the terminal to electrically connect the controller with the memory when the cartridge is at the attachment position.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus operable in conjunction with a cartridge, the cartridge having a photosensitive drum configured to carry an image thereon, a memory and a terminal arranged on a downward surface of the cartridge, the terminal being electrically connected with the memory, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n a housing having an opening, through which the cartridge is detachably attachable to the housing; a controller arranged inside the housing; a supporter configured to support the cartridge at an attachment position; a driving roller being one of paired registration rollers, the paired registration rollers being configured to regulate a position of the sheet being conveyed in the image forming apparatus with respect to the photosensitive drum; and a transfer roller arranged downstream with respect to the driving roller in a conveying direction to convey the sheet the transfer roller being configured to transfer an image in the toner carried on the photosensitive drum to the sheet; wherein the supporter comprises a guiding portion, the guiding portion being configured to guide the cartridge there-along, and a memory electrode, the memory electrode being electrically connected with the controller; wherein the guiding portion is configured to guide the cartridge being attached to the attachment position to descend as the cartridge approaches from the opening to the attachment position; wherein the memory electrode protrudes upward at a position lower than the terminal on the cartridge and has a height to contact the terminal to electrically connect the controller with the memory when the cartridge is at the attachment position; wherein the cartridge comprises a driven roller being the other of the paired registration rollers; and wherein the memory electrode in the image forming apparatus is arranged between the transfer roller and the driving roller along the conveying direction, and the terminal on the cartridge is arranged between the photosensitive drum and the driven roller along the conveying direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15364996', '14522807', '15444535', '15903123', '15911499']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8212491171009648
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4908476311342458
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7882089685042929
- Mean Citation Score: 260.158638
- Max Citation Score: 275.30923
- Similarity Product: 212.38524962266328

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

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