PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15995470
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier carrying a toner image, a developing device, and a cleaning blade. The developing device carries out developing process feeding toner to the image carrier during image forming. The cleaning blade comes into contact with the image carrier and removes waste toner remained on the image carrier. In order to restrain turning-up of the cleaning blade, turning-up restraining process is carried out to feed the toner from the developing device to the image carrier during non-image forming, every time a given cumulative printing number of image forming operation is finished. In the turning-up restraining process, larger toner is fed to the image carrier as a given small size printing number in the cumulative printing number becomes larger.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the image carrier is composed of an amorphous silicon photosensitive body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27119
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15451625', '14685910', '14561599', '12182542', '13280432']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8307010687273776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4958174010533873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7972127019599786
- Mean Citation Score: 234.015486
- Max Citation Score: 246.9896
- Similarity Product: 161.01940838313104

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