PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968097
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "351000"]

Abstract:
A cleaning blade is a contacting device abutting a photoconductor which is a rotating body. The cleaning blade includes a contacting member that abuts the photoconductor, a supporting member that supports the contacting member, and a holding member that holds the supporting member. The supporting member supports the contacting member in a part protruding from the holding member. The holding member includes an upper surface on the side where the contacting member abuts the photoconductor and a lower surface on the opposite side of the upper surface. The holding member holds the supporting member with a supporting region away from the tip portion to the read end side. It is possible to reduce the fluctuation of the contact pressure abutting the rotating body.

Claim (Index 14):
The contacting device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the rotating body is an image carrying member, and the contacting unit abuts the image carrying member to apply a lubricant to the image carrying member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51923
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13862769', '10825318', '12558934', '14625826', '14808044']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8232744064418343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938360282530104
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7903305686229519
- Mean Citation Score: 193.10459
- Max Citation Score: 195.40985
- Similarity Product: 113.3558213441968

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

Dataset: test