PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014613
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "316000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus wherein a transfer material transport guide  35  is disposed in an optical sensor unit  29  to support a color deviation sensor, which is disposed near an intermediate transfer belt  6 . By changing the position of the optical sensor unit  29 , the grounding path of the transfer material transport guide  35  can be changed, and both the transfer bias leak prevention for the transfer material transport guide  35  and the electrostatic breakdown prevention for the color deviation sensor can be implemented. As a result, the apparatus can be downsized, and only when the intermediate transfer belt is replaced, the optical sensor unit  29  can be moved to create a space necessary for the replacement.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image bearing member configured to bear a toner image; a guide member configured to guide a transfer material to a transfer portion for transferring the toner image from the image bearing member to the transfer material; and an electric unit that comprises a device configured to be activated by electric power supply, wherein the electric unit is configured to move to a first position and to a second position that is more retracted from the image bearing member than the first position, the guide member is grounded via a resistance member when the electric unit is positioned at the first position, the guide member is grounded without the resistance member when the electric unit is positioned at the second position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12266769', '12334626', '15607308', '13676960', '12828516']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7646613450452919
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4770566398632755
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7359008745270903
- Mean Citation Score: 173.40393
- Max Citation Score: 178.0886
- Similarity Product: 125.92371642608644

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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