PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16268376
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "053000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part that forms a toner image on a recording medium; and a hardware processor that controls the image forming part, wherein the image forming part includes an image carrier, the hardware processor executes: a first adjustment process of adjusting the image forming part with use of a first image formation condition determined in accordance with a toner adhesion amount at a plurality of points in a first direction on the image carrier, and a second adjustment process of adjusting the image forming part with use of a second image formation condition determined in accordance with a toner adhesion amount at one point in a first direction on the image carrier, the image carrier rotates as a recording medium is conveyed, the first direction is a direction intersecting with a rotational direction of the image carrier.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming part that forms a toner image on a recording medium; and a hardware processor that controls the image forming part, wherein the image forming part includes an image carrier, forms a toner image on the image carrier, and forms a toner image on the recording medium by transferring an image on the image carrier onto the recording medium, the hardware processor executes:\n a first adjustment process of adjusting the image forming part with use of a first image formation condition determined in accordance with a toner adhesion amount at a plurality of points in a first direction on the image carrier; and \n a second adjustment process of adjusting the image forming part with use of a second image formation condition determined in accordance with a toner adhesion amount at one point in a first direction on the image carrier, \n the image carrier rotates as a recording medium is conveyed, the first direction is a direction intersecting with a rotational direction of the image carrier, in the first adjustment process, the first image formation condition is determined as a condition for realizing a given toner adhesion amount, and a specific target adhesion amount is determined as a toner adhesion amount at the one point when the image forming part is adjusted in accordance with the first image formation condition, in the second adjustment process, the second image formation condition is determined as a condition for setting a toner adhesion amount at the one point to the specific target adhesion amount, and at a time of arrival of timing at which the image forming part is to be adjusted, the hardware processor executes the first adjustment process when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and executes the second adjustment process when the predetermined condition is not satisfied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86792
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13710991', '14604062', '14726847', '14276082', '16054397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7805781465307774
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4716452037184876
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7496848522495485
- Mean Citation Score: 212.791492
- Max Citation Score: 215.90512
- Similarity Product: 179.92486694176674

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