PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "053000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including: a housing; a photoconductor; a developing unit configured to form a developer image on the photoconductor; a developer cartridge storing developer, the cartridge being removably mountable on the housing, a supplier configured to supply the developer from the developer cartridge to the developing unit; and a controller configured to execute a first printing process of forming a developer image by use of the developer supplied from the developer cartridge, when the developer cartridge is being mounted on the housing, and a second printing process of forming a developer image by use of the developer remaining in the developing unit, when a usage amount of the developing unit is not less than a predetermined value and the developer cartridge is not being mounted on the housing, wherein the controller does not execute the second printing process when the usage amount is less than the predetermined value.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the controller causes, in the second printing process, the supplier to stop operating.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.07547
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15940226', '15940213', '15340557', '12691030', '14924824']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8286031925959377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4974762027472699
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7954904936110709
- Mean Citation Score: 231.986754
- Max Citation Score: 258.89557
- Similarity Product: 172.5892743957037

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