PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926277
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "360000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet and a sheet conveying unit for conveying the sheet along a conveying path extending in a substantially horizontal direction in a lower portion of the image forming unit. The image forming apparatus includes a recovery container which is provided in front of the image forming unit and above the conveying path, and accommodates the waste toner discharged from the image forming unit. The image forming apparatus includes a waste toner conveying pipe that conveys the waste toner discharged from the image forming unit to the recovery container, without passing through the rear portion and the side portion of the image forming unit.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein:\n a downstream end portion in a transport direction of the second conveying unit is located above the first conveying unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5625
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15703466', '14140772', '14979745', '14141453', '15143788']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8287576574875924
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4854375406945736
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7944256458082906
- Mean Citation Score: 221.312978
- Max Citation Score: 226.80377
- Similarity Product: 159.4462562631011

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

Dataset: test