PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909807
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "101000"]

Abstract:
A belt unit removably attached to an apparatus body includes a cleaning unit configured to clean a belt, and a sheet metal configured to hold a blade for cleaning the belt is fixed to the cleaning unit. The sheet metal is in contact with a supporting portion of the apparatus body, whereby vibrations of the sheet metal is reduced.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein the supporting portion includes a protrusion portion and a ridge portion formed parallel to the swing central axis on the protrusion portion and is in contact with the sheet metal, the protrusion portion protruding from the apparatus body toward the sheet metal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14495161', '14209906', '09814862', '15641779', '11155588']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8304596257892254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.496425146888429
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7970561778991458
- Mean Citation Score: 224.160506
- Max Citation Score: 230.62126
- Similarity Product: 140.8997067452431

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