PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16232221
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "047000"]

Abstract:
There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of suppressing fluctuation of sensor output. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensor and a hardware processor. The photosensor has a layered structure in which a surface layer is laminated on a base material layer, irradiates a surface of an image bearing member on which a toner image is formed with detection light on the basis of a predetermined detection condition, and receives reflected light of the detection light reflected from the surface of the image bearing member. The hardware processor controls at least a dominant wavelength of the photosensor among the predetermined detection conditions such that light interference and dark interference are included in the reflected light, and controls a toner adhesion amount onto the image bearing member on the basis of an output of the photosensor.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a photosensor that has a layered structure in which a surface layer is laminated on a base material layer, the photosensor irradiating a surface of an image bearing member on which a toner image is formed with a detection light beam on the basis of one or more predetermined detection conditions, and receiving a reflected light beam of the detection light beam reflected from the surface of the image bearing member; and a hardware processor that controls at least a dominant wavelength of the photosensor among the one or more predetermined detection conditions such that light interference and dark interference are included in the reflected light beam, and that also controls a toner adhesion amount onto the image bearing member on the basis of an output of the photosensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23438
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12170907', '13160095', '11677484', '14603936', '15966741']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.802033970003237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4720889673516701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7690394697380804
- Mean Citation Score: 191.2763
- Max Citation Score: 209.53445
- Similarity Product: 158.7612857843965

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

Dataset: test