PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136610
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "279000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a charging member, an exposing member, a developer carrying member, a storage member to store a first lifetime threshold for the first image forming mode, a second lifetime threshold for the second image forming mode and a value related to a driving amount of the image bearing member. The image forming apparatus further includes a controller to (i) perform a first determination regarding the lifetime corresponding to the first mode based on the value related to the driving amount and the first lifetime threshold and (ii) perform a second determination regarding the lifetime corresponding to the second mode based on the value related to the driving amount and the second lifetime threshold, and a notifying unit to perform a notification based on a result of the first or second determination to the image bearing member.

Claim (Index 16):
An image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming modes including a first image forming mode and a second image forming mode, comprising:\n a rotatable image bearing member; a charging member configured to charge a surface of the image bearing member; an exposing member configured to expose the charged surface of the image bearing member to form an electrostatic latent image; a developer carrying member configured to develop the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface by a developer; a storage member configured to store a threshold and a value related to a driving amount of the image bearing member; a setting member configured to set a value related to a first driving amount in the first image forming mode to be compared with the threshold, based on the value related to the driving amount and set a value related to a second driving amount in the second image forming mode to be compared with the threshold, based on the value related to the driving amount, in order to determine whether the value related to the driving amount stored in the storage member is above the threshold for each mode; and a controller configured to (i) perform a first determination regarding a lifetime corresponding to the first image forming mode based on a comparison between the threshold and the value related to the first driving amount and (ii) perform a second determination regarding a lifetime corresponding to the second image forming mode based on a comparison between the threshold and the value related to the second driving amount; wherein the value related to the second driving amount corresponds to a value in case that the image bearing member operates more than the related to the first driving amount, and the controller allows an operation in the first image forming mode after a notification based on the result of the second determination is performed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09804
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15788156', '13344904', '13936519', '13937031', '15623867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8046901950195
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4797455333544918
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7721957288529993
- Mean Citation Score: 204.428626
- Max Citation Score: 215.05139
- Similarity Product: 152.2452846014601

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

Dataset: test