PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15991153
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier carrying a toner image, a developing device carrying out developing process feeding toner to the image carrier during image forming, and a cleaning blade coming into contact with the image carrier and removing waste toner on the image carrier. Turning-up restraining process feeds the toner of a constant feeding amount from the developing device to the image carrier. Replacing process feeds the toner of a variation feeding amount according to an average printing rate from the developing device to the image carrier. During non-image forming, every time a given cumulative printing number of image forming operation is finished, the replacing process is carried out in a case where the variation feeding amount according to the average printing rate in the cumulative printing number of developing process exceeds the constant feeding amount, but the turning-up restraining process is carried out otherwise.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the variation feeding amount is calculated as an amount corresponding to a difference between an upper limit printing rate preset as an upper limit for carrying out the replacing process and the average printing rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53226
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10896898', '11219672', '15619759', '11790061', '11229585']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8250061366847121
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5021427449478337
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7927197975110243
- Mean Citation Score: 218.42581
- Max Citation Score: 232.33887
- Similarity Product: 131.13322551048694

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