PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16362092
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "360000"]

Abstract:
An image-forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a process cartridge attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a sheet-feed roller and a body wall. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; a developing roller; a cleaner; a conveying pipe and a waste-toner container for storing waste toner removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaner and conveyed by the conveying pipe. The waste-toner container is detachably mountable on the drum frame. The waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame is positioned opposite to the photosensitive drum with respect to the developing roller. The body wall of the apparatus body and a container wall of the waste-toner container constitute a part of a sheet-conveying guide for guiding conveyance of a sheet from the sheet-feed roller toward the photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is attached to the apparatus body.

Claim (Index 13):
An image-forming apparatus comprising:\n an apparatus body comprising:\n a sheet-feed roller; and \n a body wall; and \n a process cartridge attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body, the process cartridge comprising:\n a photosensitive drum; \n a drum frame supporting the photosensitive drum; \n a cleaner for removing waste toner from a peripheral surface of the photosensitive drum; \n a conveying pipe for conveying the waste toner removed by the cleaner; and \n a waste-toner container for storing the waste toner conveyed by the conveying pipe, \n wherein the waste-toner container includes a guide rib configured to guide a sheet fed from outside of the apparatus body toward the sheet-feed roller, and wherein the waste-toner container is detachably mountable on the drum frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72414
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15466177', '15474507', '16228132', '16114305', '16291248']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8500537908188184
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5870156742057621
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8237499791575128
- Mean Citation Score: 426.16404400000016
- Max Citation Score: 519.25385
- Similarity Product: 481.26490167787085

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

Dataset: test