PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140644
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "027000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus prevents a situation in which in place of a container in which developer remains, a container other than the container is mounted. A toner bottle containing developer to be replenished to the developing device is mounted to a toner replenishment section. A sensor detects amount of developer in the developing device, and in a case where the detected amount of the developer is smaller than a predetermined amount, a first screen for prompting a user to replace the toner bottle is displayed. In a case where the toner bottle is removed without determining that the toner bottle satisfies a replacement condition, a second screen for prompting the user to remount the removed toner bottle is displayed. In a case where the detected amount of the developer is smaller than the predetermined amount while the second screen is displayed, the second screens continues to be displayed.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming unit including a developing device that contains developer and configured to form an image using the developer in the developing device; a portion to which a container is mountable, the container containing developer to be replenished to the developing device; a replenishment unit configured to replenish developer in the developing device from the container mounted to the portion; a sensor that detects an amount of the developer in the developing device; a display configured to display a first screen for prompting a user to replace the container mounted to the portion, in a case where an amount of the developer, detected by the sensor, is smaller than a predetermined amount; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the container mounted to the portion satisfies a replacement condition, wherein in a case where the container mounted to the portion is removed while the replacement condition is not satisfied, the display displays a second screen for prompting the user to remount the removed container, and wherein in a case where the amount of the developer, detected by the sensor, is smaller than the predetermined amount while the second screen is displayed, the display continues to display the second screen.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16139457', '15948213', '15945266', '14867420', '13470515']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8142274101168864
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4931599592249817
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7821206650276958
- Mean Citation Score: 243.0183
- Max Citation Score: 280.7578
- Similarity Product: 215.971508392477

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

Dataset: test