PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918447
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "026000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor configured to be rotatable; a charger configured to charge the photoconductor; an overcurrent detector configured to output an overcurrent detection signal in response to detection of an overcurrent in the charger; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to execute: an obtaining process of obtaining the overcurrent detection signal output from the overcurrent detector; a first counting process of counting a first number of detections based on the overcurrent detection signal obtained in the obtaining process, the first number of detections being the number of the overcurrent detection signals synchronized with a first cycle corresponding to one rotation of the photoconductor; and a first determining process of determining whether the first number of detections is not smaller than a first threshold which is not smaller than 2.

Claim (Index 10):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to decrease a voltage applied to the charger when it is determined in the first determining process that the first number of detections is not smaller than the first threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51724
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13751009', '14668025', '12683214', '10987927', '13751002']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8086619709816408
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4809589239805703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7758916662815337
- Mean Citation Score: 156.818718
- Max Citation Score: 162.0659
- Similarity Product: 101.79873693596124

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