PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16248939
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer belt configured to bear a toner image and rotate, a transferor configured to contact the intermediate transfer belt via a recording medium and form a transfer nip, a guide configured to guide the recording medium conveyed to the transfer nip, and a pressure reducing device. The intermediate transfer belt is shaped as an endless belt. The pressure reducing device is configured to reduce pressure-contact force of the transferor against the intermediate transfer belt as the recording medium advances in the transfer nip. Therefore, a trailing end of the recording medium does not move toward the intermediate transfer belt when the trailing end of the recording medium has passed the guide.

Claim (Index 5):
An image forming apparatus comprising\n the transfer device according to  claim 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45098
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15446130', '15276405', '15801858', '12461945', '14712307']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8094151695323292
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4863592207535107
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7771095746544473
- Mean Citation Score: 217.529594
- Max Citation Score: 222.3591
- Similarity Product: 148.06468174545762

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