PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938235
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus configured to, in a case where a difference between a charging current flowing through a first charging roller and a charging current flowing through a second charging roller is larger a first threshold value, perform first cleaning processing in which a cleaning ability of one cleaner of a first cleaner and a second cleaner, which corresponds to one of the first charging roller and the second charging roller, is lower than a cleaning ability of another cleaner of the first cleaner and the second cleaner, which corresponds to another of the first charging roller and the second charging roller, a charging current flowing through the one charging roller being larger than a charging current flowing through the other charging roller.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 8 , further comprising:\n a first switch electrically connecting the first cleaner and the cleaning power supply, and a second switch electrically connecting the second cleaner and the cleaning power supply, wherein the control device is configured to apply the cleaning voltage to each cleaner by maintaining each switch in an ON state, and not apply the cleaning voltage to each cleaner by maintaining each switch in an OFF state, wherein, in the first cleaning processing, the control device is configured to maintain one of the first switch and the second switch, which corresponds to the one cleaner, in the OFF state, wherein, in a case where the difference is larger than the second threshold value in the first cleaning processing, the control device is configured to maintain another of the first switch and the second switch, which corresponds to the other cleaner, in the ON state, and wherein, in a case where the difference is equal to or smaller than the second threshold value in the first cleaning processing, the control device is configured to maintain the other of the first switch and the second switch, which corresponds to the other cleaner, in the ON state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.19512
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14279861', '15816818', '15635570', '14074563', '15105529']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8067728608196777
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4885610545585825
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7749516801935682
- Mean Citation Score: 213.292986
- Max Citation Score: 218.82388
- Similarity Product: 140.2639881794477

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