PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874606
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a configuration in which a foreign object is less likely to drop onto a detection surface of a sensor when a protection member moves. The protection member is disposed above the sensor movably between a first position and a second position, and has a detection hole formed to expose a detection surface of the sensor at the first position. The protection member covers the detection surface in a part, in which the detection hole is not formed, at the second position. A protruding wall portion is provided at least at an upstream edge of the detection hole, with respect to a direction in which the protection member moves from the second position to the first position, so as to protrude upward from a top surface of the protection member.

Claim (Index 14):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 11 , wherein the first protruding wall portion is formed along an entire perimeter of the first detection hole, and the second protruding wall portion is formed along an entire perimeter of the second detection hole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38983
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15846459', '12497783', '15052535', '12875762', '11451409']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8195128414373931
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4884640055453667
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7864079578481905
- Mean Citation Score: 198.663376
- Max Citation Score: 234.05542000000003
- Similarity Product: 163.4998846643186

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