PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16271800
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus that cools a cooled unit with high cooling efficiency in the longitudinal direction with a simple structure. A connecting opening portion is provided in a boundary surface that partitions between a cooling duct and a parallel duct. A rectifying plate is shaped so as to deflect a flow of air from the right side to the left side in the vicinity of the connecting opening portion toward the lower side or toward the upper side. Low-temperature cooling air flow from the parallel duct into the cooling duct via the connecting opening portion. Alternatively, inside the cooling duct, high-temperature cooling air is removed through the connecting opening portion.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus in which a cooling unit that is mounted on a lower portion of a cooled unit as a cooling target is used to cool the cooled unit by causing cooling air to flow along one direction; wherein\n the cooling unit comprises a cooling duct having an upper surface that comes in contact with the lower portion of the cooled unit along the one direction, and inside of which the cooling air flows along the one direction from one side toward another side; and the cooling duct is provided with: an opening portion in an boundary surface that is a surface intersecting a surface contacting the upper surface in the cooling duct, and that connects on the upper surface side an inside portion of the cooling duct with an outside portion of the cooling duct; and a rectifying plate that is located at a location along the one direction where the opening portion is formed, and that deflects the flow of the cooling air on an upper side inside the cooling duct in a vertical direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93548
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15208496', '15830480', '11956382', '16257035', '11172805']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8301589104241025
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4850161504772777
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.79564463442942
- Mean Citation Score: 229.37837800000003
- Max Citation Score: 242.03656
- Similarity Product: 181.2363941513204

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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