PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985025
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "012000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a printing device, an ultrasonic sensor, and a controller. The printing device to which a toner container is mounted is configured to perform printing using toner in the toner container. The ultrasonic sensor arranged so as to correspond to a mounting position of the toner container is configured to (a) output an ultrasonic wave to a specific position of the toner container, (b) detect the ultrasonic wave that passes through the toner container, and (c) output a detection signal corresponding to an intensity of the detected ultrasonic wave. The controller is configured to determine whether the toner container is a genuine product or not on the basis of a level of the detection signal of the ultrasonic sensor when the toner container is mounted.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2  wherein if the controller successfully reads production timing of the toner container from an IC chip mounted in the toner container, the controller determines production timing of the toner container on the basis of a level of the detection signal of the ultrasonic sensor, compares the determined production timing with the read production timing, and thereby determines whether the toner container is a genuine product or not; and if the controller fails to read production timing of the toner container from an IC chip mounted in the toner container, the controller does not determine whether the toner container is a genuine product or not.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15139860', '15165302', '13049668', '14924198', '15340557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8112091150598939
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.476032495909567
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7776914531448613
- Mean Citation Score: 168.02891599999995
- Max Citation Score: 182.95023
- Similarity Product: 126.65179188973906

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