PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16362092
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "360000"]

Abstract:
An image-forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a process cartridge attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a sheet-feed roller and a body wall. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; a developing roller; a cleaner; a conveying pipe and a waste-toner container for storing waste toner removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaner and conveyed by the conveying pipe. The waste-toner container is detachably mountable on the drum frame. The waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame is positioned opposite to the photosensitive drum with respect to the developing roller. The body wall of the apparatus body and a container wall of the waste-toner container constitute a part of a sheet-conveying guide for guiding conveyance of a sheet from the sheet-feed roller toward the photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is attached to the apparatus body.

Claim (Index 1):
An image-forming apparatus comprising:\n an apparatus body comprising:\n a sheet-feed roller; and \n a body wall; \n a process cartridge attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body, the process cartridge comprising:\n a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in an axial direction; \n a drum frame supporting the photosensitive drum; \n a developing roller including a shaft and a roller body provided around the shaft, the roller body having a length in the axial direction; \n a cleaner configured to remove waste toner from a peripheral surface of the photosensitive drum; \n a conveying pipe configured to convey the waste toner removed by the cleaner; and \n a waste-toner container detachably mountable on the drum frame, the waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame being positioned opposite to the photosensitive drum with respect to the developing roller, the waste-toner container including a container wall, the body wall of the apparatus body and the container wall of the waste-toner container constituting a part of a sheet-conveying guide when the process cartridge having the waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame is attached to the apparatus body, the sheet-conveying guide being configured to guide conveyance of a sheet from the sheet-feed roller toward the photosensitive drum; and \n a sheet-supply portion configured to supply the sheet to the sheet-conveying guide from outside of the apparatus body, wherein the waste-toner container has a length longer than the length of the roller body in the axial direction, wherein the photosensitive drum, the developing roller and the waste-toner container are arranged in a prescribed direction, and wherein, when the process cartridge having the waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame is attached to the apparatus body, the sheet-supply portion is arranged not to overlap with the waste-toner container when viewed in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction and the prescribed direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72414
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15466177', '15474507', '16228132', '16114305', '16291248']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8494351674065975
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5898749421310523
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8234791448790431
- Mean Citation Score: 426.16404400000016
- Max Citation Score: 519.25385
- Similarity Product: 494.6537843746365

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

Dataset: test