PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031334
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "100000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an endless belt; an image bearing member that bears a toner image and contacts with the outer circumferential surface of the belt at a transfer position for transferring the toner image to the belt, the transfer position being disposed downstream; a transfer roller configured to transfer the toner image from the image bearing to the belt and contact with an inner circumferential surface of the belt at a contact position, the contact position does not overlap with the transfer position as viewed from the thickness direction of the belt; a biasing member that biases the transfer toward the inner circumferential surface of the belt, and a position of the transfer roller is set to a balanced position between a biasing force by the transfer roller pressing the inner circumferential surface of the belt and the drag received by the transfer roller from the belt.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an endless belt that is rotatably provided; a first image bearing member that bears a first toner image and contacts with an outer circumferential surface of the belt at a first transfer position for transferring the first toner image to the belt; a second image bearing member that bears a second toner image and contacts with the outer circumferential surface of the belt at a second transfer position for transferring the second toner image to the belt, the second transfer position being disposed downstream from the first transfer position in a rotation direction of the belt; a first transfer roller configured to transfer the first toner image from the first image bearing to the belt by being applied a first transfer bias and contact with an inner circumferential surface of the belt at a first contact position, the first contact position does not overlap with the first transfer position as viewed from a thickness direction of the belt; a second transfer roller configured to transfer the second toner image from the second image bearing to the belt and contact with an inner circumferential surface of the belt at a second contact position, the second contact position does not overlap with the second transfer position as viewed from the thickness direction of the belt; a downstream support roller configured to support the belt and contact with an inner circumferential surface of the belt at a third contact position, the third contact position being disposed adjacent to and downstream from the second contact position in the rotation direction of the belt; a first abutting portion configured to abut the first transfer roller and configured to position the first transfer roller with respected to the thickness direction of the belt; a second abutting portion configured to abut the downstream support roller and configured to position the downstream support roller with respected to the thickness direction of the belt; a biasing member that biases the second transfer toward the inner circumferential surface of the belt, and wherein a position of the second transfer roller is set to a balanced position between a biasing force by the second transfer roller pressing the inner circumferential surface of the belt and the drag received by the second transfer roller from the belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11668819', '13877447', '11866079', '13877444', '13644471']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8437982855950538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4996322544832311
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8093816824838715
- Mean Citation Score: 309.03748
- Max Citation Score: 318.29535
- Similarity Product: 277.4383033150613

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