PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16208965
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "097000"]

Abstract:
An object is to suppress consumption of toner by a method of performing dew condensation elimination through toner application to a photosensitive drum. Provided is an image forming apparatus, including a plurality of photosensitive drums; an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from the photosensitive drums; a determination unit which is configured to determine whether or not a dew condensation occurrence condition is met; and a dew condensation elimination unit which is configured to perform a dew condensation elimination operation by applying toner to the photosensitive drum in a case where the determination unit determines that the dew condensation occurrence condition is met and when a start instruction for image formation is received. When the image formation is started in a color image formation mode, the dew condensation elimination unit executes a first dew condensation elimination mode of applying toner to photosensitive drums corresponding to all of colors.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising an abutment/separation unit,\n wherein, in a case where the image formation mode is the monochromatic image formation mode, the abutment/separation unit brings the intermediate transfer belt into abutment against only a photosensitive drum for monochrome, and wherein, in a case where the image formation mode is the color image formation mode, the abutment/separation unit brings the intermediate transfer belt into abutment against photosensitive drums for monochrome and colors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17808
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15836203', '14483035', '14103910', '11167844', '15833280']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7845073833774294
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.486296607964025
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.754686305836089
- Mean Citation Score: 230.815272
- Max Citation Score: 236.85399
- Similarity Product: 181.40254999840727

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