PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925560
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
A charging bias output portion is controlled so that a direct-current component of a charging bias voltage reaches a target voltage value taking a first set time after output start. A transfer bias output portion is controlled so that output of a transfer bias is started after a first position of an image bearing member reaches a transfer position and before a second position reaches the transfer portion, and a transfer current reaches a target current value taking a second set time. The first position is a position of the image bearing member that passes through a charging portion between a charging member and the image bearing member at a timing when the output of the charging DC is started, and the second position is a position that passes through the charging portion at a timing when the charging DC reaches the target voltage value.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the control portion starts the output of the transfer bias output portion before an intermediate point of the charging raising region passes through the transfer portion in the movement direction of the image bearing member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.33333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15623840', '14173044', '12261290', '13857159', '15467109']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8435537398717826
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5104251771080839
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8102408835954127
- Mean Citation Score: 291.43391200000013
- Max Citation Score: 331.2519999999999
- Similarity Product: 262.2763375930785

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