PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055322
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "044000"]

Abstract:
The image forming apparatus of the present embodiment has two limiters composed of a conventional high order limiter and a low order limiter, and carries out control to switch the limiter according to a temperature and a humidity so as not to reach a image contrast potential equal to or greater than those limiters. Carrier development can occur if image formation is performed in a state where the image contrast potential is high. Therefore, by providing a low order limiter as in the present embodiment and carrying out control so as not to exceed the low order limiter at the time of the image formation, an occurrence of the carrier development can be suppressed, and an image density can also be within a prescribed range.

Claim (Index 14):
An image forming method, comprising:\n conveying a sheet; making images on the conveyed sheet and supplying toner having a glass transition temperature of about 50 degrees centigrade or lower to a developing device in a print unit; detecting humidity of an inside or outside of the print unit; detecting temperature of an inside or outside of the print unit; fixing toner to the sheet; developing an image with a two-component developing agent to form the image; and switching an upper limit value of a first development condition which is one of development conditions from a first value to a second value smaller than the first value to carry out control to form the image so that the upper limit value of the first development condition is less than or equal to the second value when both the temperature value and the humidity value are greater than or equal to the threshold values thereof based on a detected temperature and a detected humidity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94118
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15446351', '14837587', '12570332', '14921132', '15089275']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7611974269702039
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4851571033796923
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7335933946111527
- Mean Citation Score: 170.87564600000005
- Max Citation Score: 251.97787
- Similarity Product: 212.00238171629192

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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