PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16238728
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "167000"]

Abstract:
There is provided an image forming apparatus including a main body and a cartridge having an image carrier and a first coupling configured to rotate the image carrier. The main body includes a second coupling, a rotator and a receiving member. The second coupling is configured to rotate together with the first coupling about a rotation axis coaxially with the first coupling. The rotator includes gear teeth. The rotator is configured to rotate the second coupling in response to receiving the drive force from the drive source, and to rotate together with the second coupling about the rotation axis coaxially with the second coupling. The rotator, which is configured to rotate about the rotation axis coaxially with the first coupling configured to rotate the image carrier, overlaps with the receiving member when viewed from an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis.

Claim (Index 11):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a main body including a drive source; and a cartridge including an image carrier configured to carry a developer image thereon and a first coupling configured to rotate the image carrier, and configured to be mounted to and removed from the main body, wherein the main body includes:\n a second coupling configured to engage with and disengage from the first coupling, the second coupling configured to rotate together with the first coupling about a rotation axis coaxially with the first coupling when the second coupling engages with the first coupling; \n a rotator including gear teeth disposed on a peripheral surface thereof, and configured to rotate the second coupling in response to receiving the drive force from the drive source and to rotate together with the second coupling about the rotation axis coaxially with the second coupling; \n a receiving member configured to receive a recording medium discharged outside the main body; \n an accommodating member configured to accommodate the recording medium to be supplied to the image carrier; and \n a refeeding portion configured to feed the recording medium having the developer image from the image carrier fixed thereon, to the image carrier again, and the refeeding portion includes a first path extending downwardly and a second path extending continuously from the first path along an upper end of the accommodating member, \n wherein when viewed from the rotation axis, a portion of the second path of the refeeding portion overlaps with the rotator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.04
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14825674', '15447461', '15615708', '14228287', '15893495']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8201112495890558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5366283779533867
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7917629624254888
- Mean Citation Score: 294.862046
- Max Citation Score: 400.85715
- Similarity Product: 397.7119062140912

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

Dataset: test