PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868106
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus operable in a mode of forming an image using only a part of image forming stations. In the mode, a developing device contacts an image bearing member in a part of the image forming stations, and the developing device is spaced from the image bearing member in the rest of the image forming stations. The contact pressure between the image bearing member and a transferring device is made smaller in the rest than in the part. The image forming operation in the mode is executed while the image bearing members of the part and the rest are rotated. A controller is configured such that when the operation in the mode is continuously executed for a time period longer than a predetermined period, the contact pressure in the rest is made larger than the above-mentioned smaller contact pressure.

Claim (Index 19):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of image forming stations, each including a rotatable image bearing member and a developing device configured to develop an image on said image bearing member with a developer, wherein said image forming apparatus is operable in a first mode in which the image is formed by only a part of said image forming stations and no image is formed by the rest of said image forming stations, and wherein an image forming operation in the first mode is executed by rotating said image bearing members of the part and the of rest of said image forming stations; a transferring device configured to transfer the images formed on said image bearing members of said image forming stations, wherein in the first mode, the part of said image forming stations is in a contacting state in which said image bearing members contact said transferring device; a contacting/spacing device provided for the rest of said image forming stations and configured to enable the rest of said image forming stations to be in the contacting state or a spacing state in which said image bearing members are spaced from said transferring device; and a controlling device configured to control said contacting/spacing device such that the rest of said image forming stations is changed into the contacting state after the image forming operation has been executed for a predetermined period in the spacing state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66071
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15067659', '14259195', '15019192', '13494292', '13559880']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8294070483425858
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.528276953985679
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7992940389068952
- Mean Citation Score: 305.689074
- Max Citation Score: 395.29462
- Similarity Product: 275.35364026160715

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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