PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946182
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "308000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes image forming units, a transfer unit that transfers a superposed toner image including toner images formed by the image forming units onto a sheet, a fixing unit that fixes the superposed toner image onto the sheet, and a controller that performs control such that a toner image is formed while the amount of toner used per unit area by the second image forming unit when forming a line image is smaller than that when forming a solid image. The image forming units include a first image forming unit that forms a toner image that is transferred onto the transfer unit relatively earlier than the other toner images and a second image forming unit that forms a toner image that is transferred onto the transfer unit relatively later than the other toner images, the first and second image forming units using the same color toner.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the controller controls toner image formation in such a manner that a toner image is formed under a condition where an amount of toner used per unit area by the first image forming unit in a case of forming a line image is larger than an amount of toner used per unit area by the first image forming unit in a case of forming a solid image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87037
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13397449', '11962800', '11225045', '12052449', '13104526']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.832899903747588
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4752187521643503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7971317885892643
- Mean Citation Score: 233.145638
- Max Citation Score: 243.14467
- Similarity Product: 206.5380351482873

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