PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019600
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "058000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus of an exemplary embodiment includes a temperature sensor, a developing unit, a supply unit, and a control unit. The temperature sensor detects a temperature. The developing unit supplies developer to an image carrier and performs development. The supply unit contains developer and supplies the contained developer to the developing unit. The control unit executes developer replacement processing including discharging the developer from the developing unit and supplying the developer contained in the supply unit to the developing unit based on a first ratio which a ratio of a developer supply time during which the supply unit performs supply of the developer for the developing unit and a drive time during which the developing unit is driven and a threshold value obtained based on a detected temperature of a temperature sensor.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a temperature sensor which detects a temperature inside the image forming apparatus; a developing unit which supplies developer to an image carrier and performs development; a supply unit which contains developer and supplies the contained developer to the developing unit; a control unit which executes developer replacement processing of discharging the developer from the developing unit and supplying the developer contained in the supply unit to the developing unit based on a first ratio of a developer supply time during which the supply unit performs supply of the developer for the developing unit and a drive time during which the developing unit is driven and a threshold value obtained based on a detected temperature of the temperature sensor; and a storage unit which stores a correspondence relationship between a value of the detected temperature and the threshold value, wherein the control unit obtains the threshold value from the correspondence relationship according to the detected temperature of the temperature sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67925
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15341178', '12401673', '11899475', '14459614', '12571970']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8083074292051959
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4983321284565039
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7773098991303267
- Mean Citation Score: 215.33384
- Max Citation Score: 290.89294
- Similarity Product: 215.77644479514004

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