PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946239
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "297000"]

Abstract:
A transport device includes a powder applying device and a guidance member. The powder applying device is provided in a guide path through which a sheet is guided toward an image holding body holding a toner image to be transferred onto the sheet, and applies powder to end portions of the sheet in a transport direction. The guidance member is provided on a side facing the powder applying device in the guide path, and guides the sheet being transported through the guide path to the powder applying device.

Claim (Index 19):
The transport device according to  claim 17 , wherein the transport device further includes a regulating member that is provided downstream of the powder applying device in the transport direction, and\n wherein the regulating member is configured to regulate contact between the powder applying device and a transfer surface of the sheet for the toner image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11364
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15946009', '13893660', '15254268', '14030508', '15055731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8059159297514524
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4665253095506069
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.771976867731368
- Mean Citation Score: 147.06663799999995
- Max Citation Score: 172.0778
- Similarity Product: 126.85165524716378

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