PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940226
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor; a developing device; a developer storage; a supplier configured to supply developer; an optical sensor; and a controller configured to execute: a developing process of developing an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor; a usage-amount obtaining process of obtaining a usage amount of the developer; a supplying process of supplying the developer to the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a first threshold; and a detecting process of detecting, by the optical sensor, an amount of the developer in the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and wherein the controller is configured to execute the detecting process in a period different from a period in which the developing process is being executed.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein, in the usage-amount obtaining process, a second usage amount is obtained as the usage amount of the developer, the second usage amount being a usage amount of the developer obtained after a time point of detection of the amount of the developer in a preceding detecting process, and wherein, in the detecting process, the amount of the developer is detected by the optical sensor every time when the second usage amount becomes equal to or greater than the second threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15940213', '11431967', '12550273', '15939513', '11521559']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8289922314604194
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5289182447825687
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7989848327926344
- Mean Citation Score: 257.411098
- Max Citation Score: 389.77567
- Similarity Product: 242.9204407798624

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