PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976278
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "445000"]

Abstract:
In order to provide a discriminating device in which high discrimination accuracy is achieved by appropriately setting parallelism of a plurality of light beams caused to enter a recording material, provided is a discriminating device including: a light guiding member configured to guide a plurality of light beams from a light source to an irradiated surface; an image pickup element configured to receive a light beam from the irradiated surface; and an optical system configured to guide the light beam from the irradiated surface to the image pickup element, wherein the plurality of light beams include a plurality of first light beams which are emitted from the light guiding member and enter a first effective region of the irradiated surface, and wherein the plurality of first light beams form an angle of 7° or less with each other within a first cross section parallel to the irradiated surface.

Claim (Index 17):
An image forming apparatus according to  claim 15 ,\n wherein the first effective region is included in a surface of the transfer material onto which the toner image is to be transferred, and wherein an average value of angles formed by each incident direction of the plurality of first light beams with respect to the irradiated surface and a conveyance direction of the transfer material is 35\u00b0 or more and 55\u00b0 or less when the plurality of first light beams are projected to the irradiated surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24638
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10887850', '13539588', '11263910', '10831289', '10809445']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7259645984270291
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914141060717271
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7025095491914989
- Mean Citation Score: 173.57108
- Max Citation Score: 178.59988
- Similarity Product: 116.36984871755124

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

Dataset: test