PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16258397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "353000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier to which a lubricant is applied; a developing device that develops an electrostatic latent image carried on the image carrier with toner, and includes a casing accommodating a toner-containing developer and a developing sleeve supplying the image carrier with the toner contained in the developer accommodated in the casing; and a hardware processor that detects information indicating a state of lubricant adhesion to the developing sleeve, and performs, based on a result of the detection by the hardware processor, a lubricant removing operation as an operation for removing the lubricant adhering to the developing sleeve.

Claim (Index 11):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 9 , wherein the removal image is an image including each of a plurality of lines extending in the direction perpendicular to the sheet transport direction or a grid image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98214
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10923904', '11857070', '15450406', '12365021', '12906023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8349041097780655
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4992962658765505
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8013433253879141
- Mean Citation Score: 233.382776
- Max Citation Score: 241.19699
- Similarity Product: 144.83295266156676

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