PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923663
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001900"]

Abstract:
An exposure device includes a predetermined number of light emitting elements. A sheet setting unit accepts a user setting of the sheet on which the image is to be formed. The sheet on which the image is to be formed includes at least a first sheet and a second sheet different from the first sheet. The first sheet is a maximum sheet which can be used by the image forming apparatus. A controller determines a width of a margin based on the user setting of the sheet on which the image is to be formed. The margin is a region provided on each of both sides of the direction orthogonal to the sheet and on which the image is not formed. The controller forms the image on the sheet set by the user by controlling the exposure device according to the determined margin width.

Claim (Index 10):
An image forming method performed by an image forming apparatus which includes a controller and a memory configured to store a first margin width that is a margin width provided on both sides of a sheet width in a direction orthogonal to a sheet transport direction of a sheet, and in which no image is formed, and an exposure device including a predetermined number of light emitting elements arranged in a linear shape in the direction orthogonal to the sheet transport direction of the sheet on which an image is to be formed, the method comprising:\n accepting a user setting of the sheet on which the image is to be formed, the sheet on which the image is to be formed including at least a first sheet which is a sheet of maximum size usable by the image forming apparatus and a second sheet different from the first sheet; accepting the user setting of a margin width, wherein the margin width includes the first margin width and a second margin width smaller than the first margin width; and determining the margin width which is set based on the user setting or the first margin width stored in the memory as the margin of the sheet set by the controller; controlling the exposure device according to the determined margin width to form the image on the sheet set by the controller; and causing the image to be formed such that an effective writing width, which is a width of the image formable on the sheet by the predetermined number of light emitting elements, corresponds to a width obtained by subtracting the first margin width from the sheet width of the first sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60345
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11283695', '13755960', '15374663', '15238576', '15496873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4868140139797203
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4744571873522024
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4855783313169686
- Mean Citation Score: 156.965238
- Max Citation Score: 161.25179
- Similarity Product: 118.00204472059193

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

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