PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957081
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "038000"]

Abstract:
An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a medium conveyance device that conveys a continuous medium; an image formation unit that forms a developer image on the medium to print on the medium; a used condition detector that detects a used condition of the image formation unit; and a controller that controls the medium controller, the image formation unit, and the used condition detector. When it is determined that the image formation unit comes to a time for replacement during a printing operation, the controller selects whether to continue the printing operation based on the detection by the used condition detector.

Claim (Index 9):
An image formation apparatus comprising:\n a medium conveyance device that conveys a continuous medium; an image formation unit that forms a developer image on the medium to print on the medium by using a first consumable item and a second consumable item; a display; an input unit that receives a user input regarding whether to continue a printing operation or not; a used condition detector that detects used conditions of the first consumable item and the second consumable item; and a controller that controls the medium conveyance device, the image formation unit, and the used condition detector, wherein the controller determines whether the first consumable item comes to a time for replacement based on a remaining amount of the first consumable item, and determines whether the second consumable item comes to a time for replacement based on a performance deterioration of the second consumable item, during a printing operation, when the controller determines that the first consumable item does not come to the time for replacement based on the remaining amount of the first consumable item and determines that the second consumable item comes to the time for replacement based on the performance deterioration of the second consumable item, and the input unit receives a user input to continue the printing operation, the controller displays on the display an indication that urges the replacement of the second consumable item while continuing the printing operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19608
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14528194', '15957436', '15046502', '13833199', '10896898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8006429898973535
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4810227991573577
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.768680970823354
- Mean Citation Score: 192.51158
- Max Citation Score: 200.81364
- Similarity Product: 134.51503904585837

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

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