PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925560
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
A charging bias output portion is controlled so that a direct-current component of a charging bias voltage reaches a target voltage value taking a first set time after output start. A transfer bias output portion is controlled so that output of a transfer bias is started after a first position of an image bearing member reaches a transfer position and before a second position reaches the transfer portion, and a transfer current reaches a target current value taking a second set time. The first position is a position of the image bearing member that passes through a charging portion between a charging member and the image bearing member at a timing when the output of the charging DC is started, and the second position is a position that passes through the charging portion at a timing when the charging DC reaches the target voltage value.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a developer bearing member that forms a developing portion between the image bearing member and the developer bearing member, and to rotate while bearing two-component developer containing magnetic carrier and non-magnetic toner; and a developing bias output portion that outputs, to the developer bearing member, a developing bias including a same polarity as a charging polarity of the non-magnetic toner, to develop an electrostatic latent image borne on the image bearing member, at the developing portion, wherein the control portion performs control so as to increase a direct-current component of the developing bias linearly or in a stepwise manner to the target developing voltage value after the leading end of the charging raising region reaches the developing portion when the control portion causes the charging bias output portion and the developing bias output portion to respectively start the output of the charging bias and the output of the developing bias.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.33333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15623840', '14173044', '12261290', '13857159', '15467109']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8272234990341236
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.507237730250716
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7952249221557829
- Mean Citation Score: 291.43391200000013
- Max Citation Score: 331.2519999999999
- Similarity Product: 271.61492934513086

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