PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150811
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
An intermediate transfer unit includes an intermediate transfer belt, a plurality of transfer rollers, a housing, and a filter unit. The intermediate transfer belt is mounted around a drive roller and a driven roller and capable of traveling in an endless path around the rollers. The housing holds the intermediate transfer belt and the transfer rollers. The filter unit includes: a suction portion; an exhaust portion; and a rectangular chassis provided internally with an upstream filter and a downstream filter both capable of collecting powder particles. The filter unit is disposed inside of the intermediate transfer belt so that a direction of length of the chassis is oriented parallel to a direction of width of the intermediate transfer belt perpendicular to a direction of travel of the intermediate transfer belt, and the filter unit is fixed to the housing.

Claim (Index 4):
The intermediate transfer unit according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the plurality of transfer rollers are three or more transfer rollers, the filter unit comprises a plurality of filter units, and each of the filter units is disposed between adjacent two of the plurality of transfer rollers in the direction of travel of the intermediate transfer belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55932
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15276459', '15933141', '14222675', '12981698', '14446950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7887755994260669
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4863542636138451
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7585334658448447
- Mean Citation Score: 186.465074
- Max Citation Score: 190.13278
- Similarity Product: 129.25217956425664

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

Dataset: test