PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109787
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "053000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit that transfers a toner image to a recording medium; a non-white toner image forming unit that forms a non-white toner image on the transfer unit by using non-white toner having a non-white color that differs from white; a white toner image forming unit that forms a white toner image on the transfer unit by using white toner that is white in color after the non-white toner image is formed on the transfer unit; and a control unit that controls an amount of the white toner used by the white toner image forming unit to form the white toner image so that the amount of the white toner is smaller when the non-white toner image is formed under the white toner image than when no toner image is formed under the white toner image.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the image forming apparatus includes three or more toner image forming units including the non-white toner image forming unit and the white toner image forming unit, the toner image forming units individually forming toner images on the transfer unit so that the toner images are superposed, and\n wherein, among the toner image forming units, the white toner image forming unit is located most downstream with respect to the transfer unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.22222
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15257648', '15249759', '11604024', '15943948', '13608128']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8207722964622279
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.465801053092318
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.785275172125237
- Mean Citation Score: 186.383862
- Max Citation Score: 199.34326
- Similarity Product: 159.0366596925044

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