PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259370
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "361000"]

Abstract:
A sensor unit is at least partially disposed in a region below an upper end of a reversing roller, above a lower end of a second rotary member, and outside a duplex conveying path.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming unit configured to form an unfixed image on a recording material; a fixing unit including a first rotary member configured to come into contact with the unfixed image on the recording material and a second rotary member configured to form a fixing nip with the first rotary member to convey the recording material therebetween, the fixing unit being configured to fix the unfixed image formed by the image forming unit onto the recording material; a reversing roller configured to reverse the recording material in such a manner that instead of a leading edge, a trailing edge of the recording material that has passed through the fixing unit is conveyed; a duplex conveying path configured to convey the reversed recording material to the image forming unit again; a discharge portion configured to discharge the recording material out of the image forming apparatus; and a sensor unit including a sensor that reads an image on a document, wherein the sensor unit is at least partially disposed in a region below an upper end of the reversing roller, above a lower end of the second rotary member, and outside the duplex conveying path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.23333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13955303', '14252967', '12727072', '13368017', '12845185']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8192804858665284
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914745655131384
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7864998938311893
- Mean Citation Score: 252.402158
- Max Citation Score: 260.88913
- Similarity Product: 185.3411544428212

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