PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863190
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus forms an image by transferring a toner image to a sheet, the toner image being formed on an image carrier belt with an elastic layer on a surface. The apparatus includes a rigid blade, an angle detector, an angle changer and a hardware processor. The rigid blade contacts with the image carrier from which the toner image has been transferred to the sheet, so as to clean residue attached on the surface of the image carrier. The angle detector detects an effective contact angle between the surface of the image carrier and an opposed surface of the rigid blade opposed to the image carrier. The angle changer changes the effective contact angle. The hardware processor controls the angle changer according to a detection result by the angle detector to regulate the effective contact angle to a predetermined range.

Claim (Index 12):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the angle changer changes a contact pressure of the rigid blade against the image carrier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57627
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15695985', '15351480', '14808044', '15436896', '09814862']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8235346586999407
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4698884322293464
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7881700360528813
- Mean Citation Score: 200.630002
- Max Citation Score: 222.9521
- Similarity Product: 185.5770676308453

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

Dataset: test