PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16117711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "048000"]

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a control unit performs a control to cause an exposing unit to expose a plurality of image bearing members at different times to form exposure regions on a plurality of image bearing members, to acquire results acquired by applying direct current voltage lower than discharge start voltage to a plurality of abutting members by an applying unit when the exposure region pass by the abutting parts against the abutting members and detected by a detecting unit, and to, based on the acquired results of the detections, acquire information regarding the surface potentials of the a plurality of image bearing members.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of rotatable image bearing members; a plurality of abutting members abutting against the corresponding plurality of image bearing members to form an abutting part; an applying unit configured to apply voltage to the plurality of abutting members; an exposing unit configured to expose the plurality of image bearing members to light; a common detecting unit configured to detect a value of electric current flowing or voltage generated when the applying unit applies voltage to the plurality of abutting members; and a control unit configured to perform a control to cause the exposing unit to expose the plurality of image bearing members at different times to form exposure regions on surfaces of the plurality of image bearing members and to acquire information regarding surface potentials of the plurality of image bearing members based on results acquired by applying direct current voltage lower than discharge start voltage to the plurality of abutting members by the applying unit when the exposure regions passes by the abutting parts and detected by the detecting unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05556
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14060991', '14085200', '14690181', '15281397', '13866778']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7752514184314515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4839122671058728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7461175032988936
- Mean Citation Score: 205.405972
- Max Citation Score: 210.69041
- Similarity Product: 151.8678917557216

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