PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "053000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a calculation portion calculates an image ratio of the electrostatic image to be formed. A controller controls the developer supply from a developer supplier to the developing unit based on the toner density output of the inductance sensor. An adjustment portion adjusts the density of the toner output from the toner density detection portion to a higher value in a case where the image ratio calculated by the calculation portion is higher than a predetermined image ratio.

Claim (Index 14):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is to be formed; a developing unit comprising a developer bearing member configured to carry and convey developer comprising toner and carrier to develop the electrostatic image, the developing unit being configured to accommodate the developer; a toner density detection portion configured to detect a density of the toner in the developer in the developing unit; a calculation portion configured to calculate an image ratio of the electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member; an adjustment portion configured to adjust the density of the toner output from the toner density detection portion to a higher value in a case where the image ratio calculated by the calculation portion is higher than a predetermined image ratio; a developer supplying portion configured to supply the developer to the developing unit; and a controller configured to execute a first supply mode and a second supply mode, wherein, in the first supply mode, the controller controls the developer to be supplied from the developer supplying portion to the developing unit on a basis of the density of the toner output from the toner detection portion that has not been adjusted by the adjustment portion, and wherein, in the second supply mode, the controller controls the developer to be supplied from the developer supplying portion to the developing unit on a basis of the density of the toner that has been adjusted by the adjustment portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80851
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15643846', '15642169', '15642727', '15056050', '14459614']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8103228511370573
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5239631440712875
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7816868804304803
- Mean Citation Score: 328.606668
- Max Citation Score: 361.0501
- Similarity Product: 319.0411048510611

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