PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16383451
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
An intermediate transfer belt includes a surface layer with a solid lubricant added therein on an outer peripheral surface side in abutment with a photosensitive drum and a cleaning blade in a thickness direction. Further, the surface layer includes a plurality of grooves formed along a movement direction of the intermediate transfer belt in a width direction of the intermediate transfer belt. The intermediate transfer belt including the grooves satisfies J×(1/K)×L×(Q/ρ P )/((Q/ρ P )+(100/ρ A ))<240.

Claim (Index 13):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member configured to bear a toner image thereon; a movable intermediate transfer member configured to abut against the image bearing member and receive a primary transfer of the toner image borne by the image bearing member; and an abutment member provided on a downstream side of a secondary transfer portion in a movement direction of the intermediate transfer member, the secondary transfer portion being a portion where the toner image primarily transferred on the intermediate transfer member is secondarily transferred from the intermediate transfer member onto a transfer material, the abutment member being in abutment with the intermediate transfer member and configured to collect toner remaining on the intermediate transfer member after passing through the secondary transfer portion, wherein the intermediate transfer member includes a surface layer with a solid lubricant added therein on an outer peripheral surface side in abutment with the image bearing member and the abutment member, the surface layer including a plurality of grooves formed along the movement direction in a width direction of the intermediate transfer member that intersects with the movement direction, and wherein the grooves are formed on the surface layer in such a manner that a height of the solid lubricant, which is a distance from the surface layer to the abutment member in a thickness direction, falls below an average particle diameter of the toner when the solid lubricant is attached from the surface layer to the abutment member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7963
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16383192', '16379571', '12923299', '13599921', '14559132']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8196340636663255
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782023716844865
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7854908944681416
- Mean Citation Score: 250.94111000000004
- Max Citation Score: 273.0541
- Similarity Product: 253.61140756417515

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