PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896997
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "297000"]

Abstract:
A moving member is disposed between an upper guide, which guides a conveyed transfer material and to which a voltage is applied from a power source, and a lower guide, which guides the conveyed transfer material, the upper guide being disposed on an upstream side with respect to a photosensitive drum in a conveyance direction of the transfer material. The moving member is supported by the upper guide, and is capable of abutting against and separating from the lower guide. By being pushed by the transfer material, the moving member transitions from a first state in which the moving member is abutted against the lower guide to a second state in which the moving member is separated from the lower guide.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member configured to carry a toner image; a transfer member configured to transfer the toner image carried on the image bearing member to a transfer material; a first guiding member disposed, in a conveyance direction of the transfer material, upstream with respect to a position where the toner image is transferred to the transfer material from the image bearing member, the first guiding member guiding the transfer material that is being conveyed; a second guiding member that is disposed so as to oppose the first guiding member and guides the transfer material that is being conveyed, the second guiding member being electrically connected to an electrical ground; a power source connected to the first guiding member, the power source applying a voltage equivalent to a normal charge polarity of toner to the first guiding member during a transfer of the toner image to the transfer material from the image bearing member; and a moving member, the moving member being conductive and capable of moving between a first state in which the moving member is supported by either one of the first guiding member or the second guiding member and in which the moving member abuts against the first guiding member or the second guiding member not supporting the moving member, and a second state in which the moving member is separated from the first guiding member or the second guiding member not supporting the moving member by being pushed by the transfer material conveyed in the first state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45283
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11876423', '15816818', '13960060', '13454294', '10853108']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.813848780780332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4728246634175637
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7797463690440551
- Mean Citation Score: 225.76274400000003
- Max Citation Score: 232.31671
- Similarity Product: 188.74586143068072

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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