PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976057
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "223000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transferor to rotate in a predetermined rotation direction, a plurality of image bearers disposed along the intermediate transferor to bear latent images, a plurality of developing devices to develop the latent images, a plurality of developer containers to contain developers, and a plurality of conveyance paths each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of developing devices and a respective one of the plurality of developer containers to supply the developers to the plurality of developing devices respectively. An arrangement of the plurality of developing devices in the predetermined rotation direction is configured to be changed without changing an arrangement of the plurality of developer containers. A layout of the plurality of conveyance paths is configured to be changed without changing connections between a supply source and a supply destination of the plurality of conveyance paths.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the plurality of developing devices includes: a developing device for black; at least one developing device for a color other than black; and a developing device for a special color, wherein, without changing the arrangement of the plurality of developer containers, positions of the developing device for black and the at least one developing device for the color other than black are configured to be shifted one by one in the predetermined rotation direction without changing an order of the developing device for black and the at least one developing device for the color other than black in the predetermined rotation direction, to shift the developing device for the special color to an extreme upstream position or an extreme downstream position, and the layout of all of the plurality of conveyance paths are configured to be changed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15956790', '12253538', '12710412', '12881822', '12009391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8203051647081376
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5215647032528341
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7904311185626073
- Mean Citation Score: 219.787874
- Max Citation Score: 349.51514
- Similarity Product: 203.4735241885161

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

Dataset: test