PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898152
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
After primary transfer, in a state where a pressing force of a primary transfer brush is released to separate an intermediate transfer belt from a photosensitive drum, current is impeded to the primary transfer brush. After that, the total current supplied from a secondary transfer roller and a conductive brush is set as a total current whose value is smaller than that of the total current supplied during the primary transfer.

Claim (Index 14):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image carrying member that carries a toner image; an intermediate transfer belt which has an endless shape and is movable and onto which the toner image from the image carrying member is primary-transferred; an abutting member that is pressed against the intermediate transfer belt from an inner peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt to cause the intermediate transfer belt to abut against the image carrying member; and a current supply unit that has a plurality of contact members contacting an outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt and supplies current to the intermediate transfer belt, the current supply unit supplying a first total current in a state where the abutting member is pressed against the intermediate transfer belt, so that the toner image is primary-transferred from the image carrying member onto the intermediate transfer belt, wherein after the toner image is primary-transferred from the image carrying member onto the intermediate transfer belt, in a state where a pressing force by which the abutting member is pressed against the intermediate transfer belt is released to separate the abutting member from the intermediate transfer belt and where a second total current whose value is smaller than a value of the first total current is supplied from the current supply unit, the toner image that is primary-transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt is secondary-transferred onto a transfer material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15838846', '13828748', '14798018', '15660794', '14031540']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8044041449490711
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5017367884218588
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7741374092963498
- Mean Citation Score: 295.700752
- Max Citation Score: 303.37466
- Similarity Product: 261.0820066235268

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