PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15991153
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier carrying a toner image, a developing device carrying out developing process feeding toner to the image carrier during image forming, and a cleaning blade coming into contact with the image carrier and removing waste toner on the image carrier. Turning-up restraining process feeds the toner of a constant feeding amount from the developing device to the image carrier. Replacing process feeds the toner of a variation feeding amount according to an average printing rate from the developing device to the image carrier. During non-image forming, every time a given cumulative printing number of image forming operation is finished, the replacing process is carried out in a case where the variation feeding amount according to the average printing rate in the cumulative printing number of developing process exceeds the constant feeding amount, but the turning-up restraining process is carried out otherwise.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the variation feeding amount is set to larger value, as the average printing rate becomes lower, but the variation feeding amount is set to maximum when the average printing rate is 0%.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53226
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10896898', '11219672', '15619759', '11790061', '11229585']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8250357523768383
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5019236749262265
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7927245446317772
- Mean Citation Score: 218.42581
- Max Citation Score: 232.33887
- Similarity Product: 131.60271653752864

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