PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170908
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
An endless belt includes a base layer having an endless belt shape, an elastic layer provided on the base layer, and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer. The surface layer contains fluororesin. The surface layer is provided with at least one mark portion formed through alteration of the surface layer by spot irradiation with laser light having an ultraviolet-region wavelength.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of manufacturing an endless belt for an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:\n preparing an endless belt including an endless base layer, an elastic layer provided on the base layer, and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer and containing fluororesin; and irradiating the surface layer with laser light having an ultraviolet-region wavelength to form at least one mark portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71795
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15159408', '11119854', '12696216', '15481069', '13599144']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7995181848244719
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4702313134599868
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7665894976880234
- Mean Citation Score: 176.63737600000005
- Max Citation Score: 185.76472
- Similarity Product: 133.60792425103187

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

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