PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "128000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a charging member, a light source, and a light quantity lowering member. The light quantity lowering member is provided so that a lowering amount of a quantity of a part of light reflected by a surface of a member at each of end portions of a charging region where the surface of the image bearing member is charged by the charging member is larger than that at a portion inside an associated end portion with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image bearing member.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a rotatable image bearing member configured to carry a toner image; a charging member configured to electrically charge a surface of said image bearing member; a transfer member configured to transfer the toner image from said image bearing member onto a transfer receiving material; a light source configured to emit discharging light for electrically discharging the surface of said image bearing member at a position between a contact position of said image bearing member with said transfer member and a contact position of said image bearing member with said charging member with respect to a rotational direction of said image bearing member; and a light quantity lowering member configured to lower a light quantity of the discharging light emitted from said light source to said image bearing member, wherein when a region of said image bearing member contacting said charging member is a charging region and a region of said image bearing member contacting said transfer member is a transfer region, the charging region is wider than the transfer region with respect to a rotational axis direction of said image bearing member, and wherein said light quantity lowering member is provided so as to lower the light quantity of the discharging light with which a region inside the charging region and outside the transfer region with respect to the rotational axis direction is irradiated and so as not to lower the light quantity of the discharging light with which the transfer region is irradiated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02128
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15074361', '15285592', '14574810', '14501819', '11736279']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7825255364248731
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5318893071879175
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7574619135011775
- Mean Citation Score: 262.06796
- Max Citation Score: 376.98642
- Similarity Product: 337.7231505787646

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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