PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136774
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "111000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly, a cartridge, a rotationally movable member, an engaging portion, and a flexible member integrally including a first supported portion, a second supported portion, and a regulating portion. A position of the regulating portion of the flexible member relative to the engaging portion is changeable by a change in a flexed state of a portion of the flexible member between the first supported portion and the second supported portion, in interrelation with a change in relative position between the first supported portion and the second supported portion with rotational movement of the rotationally movable member When the rotationally movable member is in the first position, the regulating portion is in a regulating position to limit the elastic deformation of the engaging portion.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a main assembly including a main assembly connecting portion and a driving source configured to generate a driving force for rotating said main assembly connecting portion; a cartridge including a cartridge connecting portion configured to connect with said main assembly connecting portion, and a rotatable member carrying a developer and configured to rotate by receiving the driving force through said cartridge connecting portion, wherein said cartridge is mountable to and dismountable from said main assembly by being inserted into and extracting out of said main assembly in a rotational axis direction of said rotatable member; a rotationally movable member mounted in said main assembly so as to be rotationally moved between a first position located on an insertion and extraction path of said cartridge and a second position retracted from the insertion and extraction path; an engaging portion provided in said main assembly and engageable with said cartridge on the insertion and extraction path so that said cartridge is in a mounting position where said main assembly connecting portion and said cartridge connecting portion connect with each other in an insertion and extraction direction of said cartridge, wherein said engaging portion is elastically deformable so as to be retracted from the insertion and extraction path; and a flexible member integrally including a first supported portion supported by said rotationally movable member, a second supported portion supported by said main assembly, and a regulating portion configured to limit elastic deformation of said engaging portion in contact with said engaging portion, wherein a position of said regulating portion of said flexible member relative to said engaging portion is changeable by a change in a flexed state of a portion of said flexible member between said first supported portion and said second supported portion, in interrelation with a change in relative position between said first supported portion and said second supported portion with rotational movement of said rotationally movable member, wherein when said rotationally movable member is in the first position, said regulating portion is in a regulating position to limit the elastic deformation of said engaging portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95745
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12168539', '12564285', '11007488', '13650453', '11294538']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8274976015274418
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.485834508348173
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7933312922095149
- Mean Citation Score: 265.309014
- Max Citation Score: 269.7502
- Similarity Product: 217.61203415051705

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