PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102142
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "034000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries a toner image; a cleaning unit that collects a toner on the image carrier; and a hardware processor that controls the cleaning unit, wherein the cleaning unit includes a first cleaner brush and a second cleaner brush that remove the toner from the image carrier, and the hardware processor applies bias voltages having opposite polarities to the first cleaner brush and the second cleaner brush, and determines whether life is ended with respect to each of the first cleaner brush and the second cleaner brush.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein a timing of the switching includes a timing at which the toner on the image carrier passes through a region in which the toner can be removed from the image carrier by the other of the first cleaner brush and the second cleaner brush.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17021
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13945045', '14541279', '14255306', '11402838', '13613293']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8034885100329355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.490408975277526
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7721805565573946
- Mean Citation Score: 229.192618
- Max Citation Score: 234.29698
- Similarity Product: 173.6382351388359

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