PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995470
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier carrying a toner image, a developing device, and a cleaning blade. The developing device carries out developing process feeding toner to the image carrier during image forming. The cleaning blade comes into contact with the image carrier and removes waste toner remained on the image carrier. In order to restrain turning-up of the cleaning blade, turning-up restraining process is carried out to feed the toner 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. In the turning-up restraining process, larger toner is fed to the image carrier as a given small size printing number in the cumulative printing number becomes larger.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n in the turning-up restraining process, on the basis of a ratio of the small size printing number to the cumulative printing number and a variable, in which the variable is varied in a case where an average printing rate in the cumulative printing number of image forming operation is low and the ratio of the small size printing number is high, a multiplying factor is calculated, a toner feeding amount to the image carrier is calculated by multiplying a given base amount by the multiplying factor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27119
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15451625', '14685910', '14561599', '12182542', '13280432']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8317956074276811
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4870847249637173
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7973245191812848
- Mean Citation Score: 234.015486
- Max Citation Score: 246.9896
- Similarity Product: 183.250409173584

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test