PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958057
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment provides an image forming apparatus that has a first operation mode and a second operation mode. The first operation mode forms an image on a sheet with toner. The second operation mode decolorizes the toner on the sheet on which the image is formed with a decolorable toner having a decoloring function. In the first operation mode, when the sheet passes through a transfer unit, a transfer bias having the same polarity as that of a charge of the toner is applied to the transfer member and a toner image formed on a surface of the transfer member is transferred to the sheet. In the second operation mode, when the sheet passes through the transfer unit, a cleaning bias having a reverse polarity to that of the transfer bias is applied to the transfer member.

Claim (Index 12):
The image processing method according to  claim 7 , further comprising:\n when a number of decolorized sheets reaches a preset number, alternately supplying a bias having a same polarity as that of the cleaning bias and a bias having a reverse polarity to that of the transfer bias to the transfer member

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86275
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15466038', '14936218', '14551288', '14633237', '14700665']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8130126820872661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5367817065658367
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7853895845351231
- Mean Citation Score: 274.22080800000003
- Max Citation Score: 431.03687
- Similarity Product: 282.7574711995578

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