PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987419
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "350000"]

Abstract:
A cleaning apparatus cleans an image carrier including an elastic layer after a toner image formed on the image carrier is transferred to a transfer material. The cleaning apparatus includes a rigid blade that cleans a residue attached on a surface of the image carrier by contacting the image carrier from which the toner image has been transferred to the transfer material. The rigid blade includes a metal base and a coating layer formed on a surface of the metal base. The coating layer is disposed at least at an edge portion of the base that contacts the image carrier. An upstream part of the edge portion has a rounded shape with a radius of curvature that is less than an average radius of toner particles.

Claim (Index 8):
The method for producing the rigid blade according to  claim 7 , wherein in the second step, the coating layer in the edge portion is processed by buffing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22034
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15863190', '15695985', '14284846', '15351480', '14808044']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8178987040604898
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4955011368833196
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7856589473427728
- Mean Citation Score: 197.176692
- Max Citation Score: 214.40205
- Similarity Product: 128.11337094898224

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