PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906132
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
The image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charge member, a transfer unit, an application unit, a cleaning member, a detection unit that detects an index value, and a control unit that, in a case where one or a plurality of consecutive toner images for which the index value is equal to or greater than a first threshold value is formed, performs control which increases an absolute value of the transfer voltage for a toner image to be formed next, and in a case where one or a plurality of consecutive toner images for which the index value is less than a second threshold value equal to or greater than the first threshold value is formed, performs control which decreases an absolute value of the transfer voltage for a toner image to be formed next.

Claim (Index 15):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member configured to bear a toner image; a charge member configured to contact the image bearing member and charge the image bearing member; a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image to be transferred from the image bearing member to a transferred member; an application unit configured to apply a transfer voltage for transferring a toner image from the image bearing member to the transferred member, to the transfer unit; a cleaning member configured to contact the image bearing member and remove toner on the image bearing member from the image bearing member; a detection unit configured to detect an index value which correlates with a toner amount of each of toner images transferred to one sheet of the transfer material; and a control unit configured to perform a constant voltage control with a transfer voltage applied to the transfer unit from the application unit as a constant voltage in a case where a toner image is transferred from the image bearing member to a transferred member, wherein the control unit changes between a case of adding a correction voltage to the transfer voltage set in the constant voltage control and a case of subtracting a correction voltage from the transfer voltage set in the constant voltage control, based on the index value detected by the detection unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.79245
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15703198', '13897692', '14833255', '15642727', '15607308']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8133485746259559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4766260472152627
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7796763218848866
- Mean Citation Score: 227.31739
- Max Citation Score: 231.63306
- Similarity Product: 179.5737133349776

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

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