PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878079
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "442000"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes: an optical unit movably provided to a device main body; a flexible flat cable connected to the optical unit and to the device main body through a curved portion; a first friction surface on which the flexible flat cable abuts on an opposing surface of the device main body opposing the optical unit; and a second friction surface having a frictional force smaller than that of the first friction surface on which the flexible flat cable abuts on the opposing surface, wherein when the optical unit is positioned at an end portion on one side in a moving direction, the flexible flat cable abuts on the first friction surface, and the flexible flat cable further abuts on the second friction surface on a side where the curved portion is formed outside of the first friction surface in the moving direction of the optical unit.

Claim (Index 12):
An image reading apparatus comprising:\n a device main body; an optical unit movably provided in the device main body and having a light source configured to irradiate an original with light to read an image on the original; a flexible flat cable connected to the optical unit at one end thereof and connected to the device main body side at the other end thereof and provided to be deformable accompanying movement of the optical unit; a first friction surface on which the flexible flat cable abuts on an opposing surface of the device main body opposing the optical unit; and a second friction surface having a frictional force smaller than that of the first friction surface on which the flexible flat cable abuts on the opposing surface, the image reading apparatus is capable of performing one of a plurality of modes include a flow reading mode or a fixed reading mode, wherein the flow reading mode is a mode that the image of the original is read by fixing the optical unit at a reading position, and by conveying the original so as to pass the reading position, wherein the reading position is an initial position which is an end portion on one side in a moving direction of the optical unit, wherein the fixed reading mode is a mode the image of the original is read by moving the optical unit to the other side relative to the initial position and by moving the optical unit along the original placed on an original base plate glass, wherein in a case where the optical unit moves in a predetermined moving area in the fixed reading mode, at least a part of the flexible flat cable abuts on the first friction surface, and in a case where the optical unit is at the reading position in the flow reading mode, at least a part of the flexible flat cable abuts on the second friction surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7069
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15845388', '15275053', '15093813', '13961682', '15163578']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4576074646415764
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.505792625231382
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.462425980700557
- Mean Citation Score: 206.287284
- Max Citation Score: 228.50418
- Similarity Product: 157.01468636856077

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

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