PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "114000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a cover, a cooperating member, a switching member, a detector, and a controller. The cover opens and closes an aperture in a main body of the image forming apparatus. The cooperating member moves to an activated position when the cover is opened for the first time. The activated position is a position where the cooperating member is enabled to cooperate with the cover. The switching member moves in cooperation with the cover through the cooperating member in the activated position as the cover is opened and closed. The detector detects an open state or a closed state of the cover according to the movement of the switching member. The controller determines that image formation is enabled when the detector has detected the closed state of the cover.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the cooperating member is movable between an inactivated position where the cooperating member is contained in the switching member and the activated position where the cooperating member protrudes from the switching member into the aperture, and the image forming apparatus further comprises: a biasing member configured to bias the cooperating member in a direction from the inactivated position to the activated position; and a protrusion provided on the cover and configured to keep the cooperating member retracted in the inactivated position against biasing force of the biasing member before the cover is opened for the first time after delivery of the image forming apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64815
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14876180', '15338432', '15428382', '11566897', '13164303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.838009718519772
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.485218065545686
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8027305532223634
- Mean Citation Score: 229.35721
- Max Citation Score: 253.89095
- Similarity Product: 197.9253097054244

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