PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16158241
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "101000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image forming unit that forms a toner image on an image carrier body. A primary transfer member transfers the toner image formed on the image carrier body onto an intermediate transfer body. A secondary transfer member transfers the toner image from the intermediate transfer body onto a recording medium. A control unit applies a cleaning bias to the secondary transfer member while an idle operation of the secondary transfer member is being performed before the toner image is secondarily transferred onto the transferring target material.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming method according to  claim 1 , wherein the cleaning bias is applied to the secondary transfer member after a time period of the idle operation exceeds a predetermined time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0625
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15394131', '11208892', '10452760', '14276082', '12163012']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8264385199690539
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5190925197715514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7957039199493037
- Mean Citation Score: 243.644384
- Max Citation Score: 352.24457
- Similarity Product: 266.46693055094363

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