PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16208965
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "097000"]

Abstract:
An object is to suppress consumption of toner by a method of performing dew condensation elimination through toner application to a photosensitive drum. Provided is an image forming apparatus, including a plurality of photosensitive drums; an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from the photosensitive drums; a determination unit which is configured to determine whether or not a dew condensation occurrence condition is met; and a dew condensation elimination unit which is configured to perform a dew condensation elimination operation by applying toner to the photosensitive drum in a case where the determination unit determines that the dew condensation occurrence condition is met and when a start instruction for image formation is received. When the image formation is started in a color image formation mode, the dew condensation elimination unit executes a first dew condensation elimination mode of applying toner to photosensitive drums corresponding to all of colors.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the first dew condensation elimination mode is a mode of bringing the intermediate transfer belt into abutment against all of the photosensitive drums in a case where toner is to be applied, and wherein the second dew condensation elimination mode is a mode of bringing the intermediate transfer belt into abutment against only the photosensitive drum for monochrome without bringing the intermediate transfer belt into abutment against the photosensitive drums for colors in a case where toner is to be applied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17808
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15836203', '14483035', '14103910', '11167844', '15833280']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8028032095719756
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4962831092492523
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7721511995397033
- Mean Citation Score: 230.815272
- Max Citation Score: 236.85399
- Similarity Product: 164.03914688379766

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

Dataset: test