PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938235
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus configured to, in a case where a difference between a charging current flowing through a first charging roller and a charging current flowing through a second charging roller is larger a first threshold value, perform first cleaning processing in which a cleaning ability of one cleaner of a first cleaner and a second cleaner, which corresponds to one of the first charging roller and the second charging roller, is lower than a cleaning ability of another cleaner of the first cleaner and the second cleaner, which corresponds to another of the first charging roller and the second charging roller, a charging current flowing through the one charging roller being larger than a charging current flowing through the other charging roller.

Claim (Index 12):
A control method for controlling an image forming apparatus including: a first photosensitive member; a second photosensitive member; a first charging roller configured to charge the first photosensitive member; a second charging roller configured to charge the second photosensitive member; a first cleaner configured to collect foreign matters on a surface of the first charging roller; a second cleaner configured to collect foreign matters on a surface of the second charging roller; and a charging power supply common to the first charging roller and the second charging roller and configured to apply a same charging voltage to the first charging roller and the second charging roller, the method comprising:\n in a case where a difference between a charging current flowing through the first charging roller and a charging current flowing through the second charging roller is larger a first threshold value, performing first cleaning processing in which a cleaning ability of one cleaner of the first cleaner and the second cleaner, which corresponds to one of the first charging roller and the second charging roller, is lower than a cleaning ability of another cleaner of the first cleaner and the second cleaner, which corresponds to another of the first charging roller and the second charging roller, a charging current flowing through the one charging roller being larger than a charging current flowing through the other charging roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.19512
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14279861', '15816818', '15635570', '14074563', '15105529']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8083850129653086
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4778534787761158
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7753318595463894
- Mean Citation Score: 213.292986
- Max Citation Score: 218.82388
- Similarity Product: 159.98759559602018

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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