PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958057
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment provides an image forming apparatus that has a first operation mode and a second operation mode. The first operation mode forms an image on a sheet with toner. The second operation mode decolorizes the toner on the sheet on which the image is formed with a decolorable toner having a decoloring function. In the first operation mode, when the sheet passes through a transfer unit, a transfer bias having the same polarity as that of a charge of the toner is applied to the transfer member and a toner image formed on a surface of the transfer member is transferred to the sheet. In the second operation mode, when the sheet passes through the transfer unit, a cleaning bias having a reverse polarity to that of the transfer bias is applied to the transfer member.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for an image forming apparatus having a first operation mode in which an image is formed on a sheet with toner and a second operation mode in which the toner on the sheet on which the image is formed with decolorable toner is decolorized, comprising:\n in the first operation mode,\n transferring a toner image on the sheet, the toner image is formed on a transfer unit, and \n supplying a bias voltage to the transfer unit by a voltage supply unit; and \n in the second operation mode,\n supplying a cleaning bias having a reverse polarity to that of the transfer bias to the transfer member when the sheet passes through the transfer unit, \n supplying a first voltage when the sheet is in contact with the first transfer member, and \n supplying the cleaning bias when the sheet is not contact with the transfer member

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86275
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15466038', '14936218', '14551288', '14633237', '14700665']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8100152690110264
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5458178635703923
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.783595528466963
- Mean Citation Score: 274.22080800000003
- Max Citation Score: 431.03687
- Similarity Product: 368.1353289300489

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

Dataset: test