PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874606
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a configuration in which a foreign object is less likely to drop onto a detection surface of a sensor when a protection member moves. The protection member is disposed above the sensor movably between a first position and a second position, and has a detection hole formed to expose a detection surface of the sensor at the first position. The protection member covers the detection surface in a part, in which the detection hole is not formed, at the second position. A protruding wall portion is provided at least at an upstream edge of the detection hole, with respect to a direction in which the protection member moves from the second position to the first position, so as to protrude upward from a top surface of the protection member.

Claim (Index 13):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 11 , wherein the first protruding wall portion and the second protruding wall portion each have a height of 0.3 mm or more, from a top surface of the shutter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38983
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15846459', '12497783', '15052535', '12875762', '11451409']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8195858584021853
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4879344339687024
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.786420715958837
- Mean Citation Score: 198.663376
- Max Citation Score: 234.05542000000003
- Similarity Product: 164.65784210053803

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