PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925158
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus which transfers, onto paper, a toner image formed on a belt-shaped image carrier including an elastic layer on a surface thereof, and forms an image includes a rigid blade which cleans the surface of the image carrier in contact with the image carrier which has transferred the toner image onto the paper; a roller which is upstream of the rigid blade in a rotation direction of the image carrier, and cleans the surface of the image carrier upstream of the rigid blade by coming in contact with the image carrier which has transferred the toner image onto the paper; a rigid blade holder which holds the rigid blade; and a roller holder which holds the roller. The rigid blade holder and the roller holder are installed with a gap therebetween.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the roller counter-rotates with respect to the image carrier, and a torque of equal to or greater than 0.1 N\u00b7m and equal to or less than 0.4 N\u00b7m is applied between the roller and the image carrier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15863190', '15695985', '11132046', '15351480', '15436896']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8243246549321265
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875124454213209
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.790643433981046
- Mean Citation Score: 215.602006
- Max Citation Score: 246.55038
- Similarity Product: 182.5870676021433

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