PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "128000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a charging member, a light source, and a light quantity lowering member. The light quantity lowering member is provided so that a lowering amount of a quantity of a part of light reflected by a surface of a member at each of end portions of a charging region where the surface of the image bearing member is charged by the charging member is larger than that at a portion inside an associated end portion with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image bearing member.

Claim (Index 23):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 17 , wherein said light quantity lowering member is a member through which the discharging light emitted from said light source does not pass.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02128
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15074361', '15285592', '14574810', '14501819', '11736279']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8032050774026714
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.533548120459461
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7762393817083504
- Mean Citation Score: 262.06796
- Max Citation Score: 376.98642
- Similarity Product: 277.30064757210016

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

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