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 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein, in the usage-amount obtaining process, a first usage amount is obtained as the usage amount of the developer, the first usage amount being a usage amount of the developer obtained after a time point of execution of the supply of the developer in a preceding supplying process, and wherein, in the supply process, the developer is supplied by the supplier to the developing device every time when the first usage amount becomes equal to or greater than the first 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): 0.8279482747453554
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5306905719007511
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.798222504460895
- Mean Citation Score: 257.411098
- Max Citation Score: 389.77567
- Similarity Product: 292.87383503074346

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