PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16131876
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a carriage mounts a recording head for discharging droplets, and moves in a main scan direction. A guide member slidably guides the carriage. An encoder scale is arranged along the main scan direction. An encoder sensor reads the encoder scale. The carriage includes a head mounting part for mounting the recording head, and a sensor attaching part for attaching the encoder sensor. The sensor attaching part is provided so as to be extended from the head mounting part. The encoder scale is arranged at a location which the encoder sensor can read. A partition member is provided to separate the head mounting part from the sensor attaching part in the carriage. The head mounting part is arranged in a first space, and the sensor attaching part and the encoder scale are arranged in a second space separated from the first apace by the partition member.

Claim (Index 5):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a carriage that is movable in a main scan direction and including a head mount and a sensor attachment, a head to discharge droplets being mounted to the head mount, and an encoder sensor to read an encoder scale being attached to the sensor attachment; a guide that is to slidably guide the carriage and that is disposed along the main scan direction, a portion of the guide is disposed along the main scan direction and parallel to a direction perpendicular to a sub scan direction; and a partition that is separated from the guide and that is disposed along the main scan direction, wherein the encoder sensor is disposed away from the head mount in the sub scan direction, and the portion of the guide and the partition are disposed between the head mount and the encoder sensor in the sub scan direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67213
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13990096', '13448474', '13048088', '12780520', '13027924']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7532070150929426
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5192867375769108
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7298149873413394
- Mean Citation Score: 254.14170000000004
- Max Citation Score: 347.88800000000015
- Similarity Product: 306.0917140350343

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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