PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909807
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "101000"]

Abstract:
A belt unit removably attached to an apparatus body includes a cleaning unit configured to clean a belt, and a sheet metal configured to hold a blade for cleaning the belt is fixed to the cleaning unit. The sheet metal is in contact with a supporting portion of the apparatus body, whereby vibrations of the sheet metal is reduced.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a first roller configured to stretch and rotate the belt; a second roller configured to stretch and rotate the belt together with the first roller; and a steering mechanism configured to swing the second roller about a swing central axis intersecting with a rotation axis line of the second roller with respect to the first roller to move the belt in a direction of the rotation axis line of the second roller, wherein the supporting portion is in contact with the sheet metal in a position including a vertical surface passing through the swing central axis with respect to the direction of the rotation axis line of the second roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14495161', '14209906', '09814862', '15641779', '11155588']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8155681706940577
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4764882260647893
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7816601762311309
- Mean Citation Score: 224.160506
- Max Citation Score: 230.62126
- Similarity Product: 177.99522997768642

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