PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751560
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "244000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a housing in which a light source, a laser scanning member, a light detecting portion configured to detect light incident on a predetermined position in a scanning path of the light scanned by the laser scanning member, and a scanning lens configured to cause the light scanned by the laser scanning member to be scanned at an equal speed on an image carrier, are disposed; a temperature gradient detecting portion, configured to detect a temperature gradient of the housing, a heater configured to heat the image carrier or a sheet; and a correction processing portion configured to correct the emission start timing based on the temperature detected by the temperature gradient detecting portion, and a predetermined expression, and change content of the expression based on an operation state of the heater at a start of an image formation process.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the temperature gradient detecting portion includes:\n a first temperature detecting portion configured to detect a temperature of the scanning lens; and \n a second temperature detecting portion configured to detect a temperature of the light detecting portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4375
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14708629', '13027357', '10323837', '11612750', '16090694']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.766972321145481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4803274523687216
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7383078342678051
- Mean Citation Score: 192.356992
- Max Citation Score: 193.32787
- Similarity Product: 139.51510432656642

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

Dataset: test