PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16198947
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "223000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes image bearers, developing devices, developer containers, and developer supply devices. The image bearers are arranged side by side along a movement direction of an intermediate transferor or a sheet. The developing devices, the developer containers, and the developer supply devices are configured to be rearrangeable for each color in the movement direction in a manner that one or each of a developing device, a developer container, and a developer supply device corresponding to each color of the different colors is detached from and attached to the image forming apparatus, separately from a rest of the developing device, the developer container, and the developer supply device. The image forming apparatus is configured to be available for use when colors of the developing device, the developer container, and the developer supply device correspond to each other after rearrangement.

Claim (Index 6):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of image bearers arranged side by side along a movement direction of a sheet so as to face the sheet and configured to bear latent images; a plurality of developing devices configured to develop the latent images on the plurality of image bearers with different colors, respectively; a plurality of developer containers configured to contain developers of the different colors; and a plurality of developer supply devices corresponding to the plurality of developing devices and the plurality of developer containers, respectively, and configured to supply the developers contained in the plurality of developer containers to the plurality of developing devices, respectively, wherein the plurality of developing devices, the plurality of developer containers, and the plurality of developer supply devices are configured to be rearrangeable for each color in the movement direction in a manner that one or each of a developing device, a developer container, and a developer supply device corresponding to each color of the different colors is detached from and attached to the image forming apparatus, separately from a rest of the developing device, the developer container, and the developer supply device, and wherein the image forming apparatus is configured to be available for use when colors of the developing device, the developer container, and the developer supply device correspond to each other after rearrangement of the plurality of developing devices, plurality of developer containers, and the plurality of developer supply devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15976057', '15956790', '10717204', '11592312', '10807399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8227525425758724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5142248725179713
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7918997755700823
- Mean Citation Score: 279.94892600000003
- Max Citation Score: 352.3678
- Similarity Product: 309.3975022306442

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