PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946182
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes image forming units, a transfer unit that transfers a superposed toner image including toner images formed by the image forming units onto a sheet, a fixing unit that fixes the superposed toner image onto the sheet, and a controller that performs control such that a toner image is formed while the amount of toner used per unit area by the second image forming unit when forming a line image is smaller than that when forming a solid image. The image forming units include a first image forming unit that forms a toner image that is transferred onto the transfer unit relatively earlier than the other toner images and a second image forming unit that forms a toner image that is transferred onto the transfer unit relatively later than the other toner images, the first and second image forming units using the same color toner.

Claim (Index 6):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of image forming units each of which forms a toner image based on image data; a transfer unit onto which a plurality of toner images formed by the plurality of image forming units are sequentially transferred such that the plurality of toner images are superposed with one another and that transfers a superposed toner image formed as a result of the plurality of toner images being transferred to the transfer unit onto a sheet that is transported to the transfer unit; and a fixing unit that fixes a superposed toner image onto a sheet that has been further transported after the toner image has been transferred to the sheet, wherein the plurality of image forming units include a first image forming unit configured to form a toner image that is included in a single superposed toner image and that is to be transferred to the transfer unit relatively earlier than toner images formed by the other image forming units and a second image forming unit configured to form a toner image that is included in the single superposed toner image and that is to be transferred to the transfer unit relatively later than the toner images formed by the other image forming units, the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit using the same color toner for forming the toner images, and wherein the image forming apparatus includes a controller that causes, when a toner image that includes toner images of the same color superposed with each other and that includes a line image is formed by using the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit, a toner-image formation condition in the first image forming unit and a toner-image formation condition in the second image forming unit to be different from each other in such a manner that the amount of toner used per unit area by the second image forming unit is smaller than the amount of toner used per unit area by the first image forming unit even though a toner image formed by the first image forming unit and a toner image formed by the second image forming unit are formed based on the same image data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87037
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13397449', '11962800', '11225045', '12052449', '13104526']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8154673199069006
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4745823422019085
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7813788221364013
- Mean Citation Score: 233.145638
- Max Citation Score: 243.14467
- Similarity Product: 202.50367107314824

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

Dataset: test