PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916965
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "123000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a main frame, a plurality of process cartridges, a cartridge-supporting body, a belt, a waste toner cartridge, a contact-separation mechanism, and a collective conveying unit. Each process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a drum cleaning unit collecting waste toner on the drum. The cartridge-supporting body is movable between an internal position inside the frame and an external position outside the frame. The belt confronts the process cartridges in the internal position. The waste toner cartridge accommodates the waste toner collected from the drums. The contact-separation mechanism moves the cartridge-supporting body between a contact position where the drums are in contact with the belt and a separated position where the drums are out of contact with the belt. The collective conveying unit aggregates waste toner collected from drums and conveys collectively the aggregated waste toner to the waste toner cartridge.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a main casing including:\n a first wall; and \n a second wall facing the first wall in an array direction; \n a plurality of process cartridges; a cartridge-supporting body for supporting the plurality of process cartridges, the cartridge-supporting body including:\n a third wall; and \n a fourth wall arranged between the third wall and the second wall in the array direction; \n a waste toner cartridge for accommodating waste toner collected from the plurality of process cartridges; a pair of guiding members for guiding the cartridge-supporting body; and a pair of positioning members for positioning the plurality of process cartridges; and a conveying unit for conveying the waste toner to the waste toner cartridge, the conveying unit being disposed between the third wall and the fourth wall in the array direction and being disposed between the pair of positioning members in the array direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59016
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15484218', '15415973', '14553381', '14553456', '14954624']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8609468417942976
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5627066195884827
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.831122819573716
- Mean Citation Score: 454.413398
- Max Citation Score: 477.50314
- Similarity Product: 414.4473240575397

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