PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908482
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "134000"]

Abstract:
A leaf spring configured to mount an optical element to a housing, the housing containing: a rotary polygon mirror configured to deflect a laser beam emitted from a light source; and the optical element configured to guide the laser beam deflected by the rotary polygon mirror to a member to be scanned, wherein an adhesive is applied to the leaf spring, the adhesive being configured to adhere separated material scraped from the housing, the separated material being scraped from the housing by rubbing between the leaf spring and the housing at a time of mounting the optical element to the housing.

Claim (Index 19):
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n a light scanning apparatus comprising:\n a light source; \n a rotary polygon mirror configured to deflect a laser beam emitted from the light source; \n an optical element configured to guide the laser beam deflected by the rotary polygon mirror to a member to be scanned; \n a housing containing the rotary polygon mirror and the optical element; and \n a leaf spring configured to mount the optical element to the housing, \n wherein an adhesive is applied to the leaf spring, the adhesive being configured to adhere separated material scraped from the housing, the separated material being scraped from the housing by rubbing between the leaf spring and the housing at a time of mounting the optical element to the housing; \n a photosensitive member, as the member to be scanned, on which a latent image is formed by the light scanning apparatus; a developing device configured to develop the latent image formed on the photosensitive member with toner to form a toner image; an intermediate transfer member to which the toner image formed by the developing device is transferred; a first transfer member configured to transfer the toner image on the photosensitive member to the intermediate transfer member; a second transfer member configured to transfer the toner image on the intermediate transfer member to the recording medium; and a fixing device configured to fix the toner image, which has not been fixed, to the recording medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20408
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15891087', '14310945', '15889045', '14306509', '15889802']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7501512815106279
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.483236735852769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.723459826944842
- Mean Citation Score: 220.753474
- Max Citation Score: 239.97415
- Similarity Product: 192.1855947008788

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

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