PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16163138
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "099000"]

Abstract:
In a waste toner collecting device, primary cleaning devices and a secondary cleaning device remove residual toner that has remained on photoconductor drums and an intermediate transfer belt, respectively. A conveyance path guides the residual toner in a downstream direction. A toner container stores, as waste toner, the residual toner discharged from a downstream end of the conveyance path. A toner amount sensor outputs a detection signal whose level changes in correspondence with an amount of the waste toner. A derivation portion derives an accumulated value of the residual toner based on image data each time an image formation is performed. A determination portion determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred in the waste toner collecting device based on the level of the detection signal and the accumulated value.

Claim (Index 5):
The waste toner collecting device according to  claim 3 , wherein\n the determination portion determines that an abnormality has occurred in the toner amount sensor if the waste toner change amount is lower than a third reference value or higher than the second reference value, the third reference value being lower than the first reference value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97183
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15240945', '14993622', '12204449', '15807329', '12923985']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.814059022408797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4629477855173171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.778947898719649
- Mean Citation Score: 169.593184
- Max Citation Score: 183.82596
- Similarity Product: 144.01840590189457

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