PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912248
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "301000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt, an image forming unit, a transfer unit, a roller configured to transport the sheet to the transfer unit, a light emitting unit configured to irradiate a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt along a width direction of the intermediate transfer belt, a light reception unit configured to detect a quantity of light reflected from the portion of the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt, and a pressure applying unit arranged between the roller and the transfer unit in a sheet conveying direction, and configured to press a portion of the sheet in a width direction of the sheet that overlaps with the portion of the outer surface of the intermediate transfer belt.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an intermediate transfer belt configured to convey a toner image that is held on an outer peripheral surface thereof; an image forming unit configured to form the toner image on an outer peripheral surface of a photosensitive drum, to transfer the toner image formed on the outer peripheral surface of the photosensitive drum onto the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt; a transfer unit configured to transfer the toner image conveyed by the intermediate transfer belt onto a sheet; a roller configured to transport the sheet to the transfer unit; a light emitting unit located between a position at which the toner image is transferred from the image forming unit and a position at which the toner image is transferred onto the sheet and configured to irradiate a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt along a width direction of the intermediate transfer belt; a light reception unit configured to detect a quantity of light reflected from the portion of the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt; and a pressure applying unit arranged between the roller and the transfer unit in a sheet conveying direction, and configured to press a portion of the sheet along a width direction of the sheet that overlaps with the portion of the outer surface of the intermediate transfer belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95652
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13739206', '15392249', '10694813', '14856649', '15629921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7841769980393747
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4794078016299764
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7537000783984349
- Mean Citation Score: 227.603888
- Max Citation Score: 230.96573
- Similarity Product: 187.54346526533604

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

Dataset: test