PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925115
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "024000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprises an expendable item having a specific function, installed replaceably with respect to a main body of the image forming apparatus, wherein there are several types of expendable items, and an engine control unit. The engine control unit judges end of lifetime of the expendable item by using one of a plurality of lifetime judgment methods. The engine control unit selects a lifetime judgment method used in the judgment, according to a type of the expendable item. It makes possible to provide an image forming apparatus capable of appropriately determining the reaching of the lifetime end of expendable items.

Claim (Index 11):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 9 , wherein the hardware processor\n measures an actually measured value relating to the expendable item at a predetermined timing, and determines that the type of the expendable item is the reset item, when a difference between an actually measured value relating to the expendable item measured before replacing the expendable item and an actually measured value relating to the expendable item measured after replacing the expendable item is within a second range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11194884', '10225244', '10382062', '11064026', '11024760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8200479126136789
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4853162341989983
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7865747447722109
- Mean Citation Score: 199.486404
- Max Citation Score: 239.109
- Similarity Product: 177.50021032744647

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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