PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16130174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus, including: an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; an image bearing member charging unit which applies image bearing member charging voltage; a developer bearing member to which developing voltage for developing the electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member is applied and which bears and transports a developer; a primary transfer unit which transfers a developer image on the image bearing member to an intermediate transfer member; and a charging member which charges a developer on the intermediate transfer member, the developer image being first primarily transferred and then secondarily transferred to a recording material, wherein the image forming apparatus operates in: a first mode in which a residual developer on the intermediate transfer member after the secondary transfer is electrostatically removed from the intermediate transfer member; and a second mode.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; an image bearing member charging unit which applies image bearing member charging voltage for charging the image bearing member; a developer bearing member to which developing voltage is applied and which bears and transports a developer in order to develop the electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member; a primary transfer unit which primarily transfers a developer image developed on the image bearing member to an intermediate transfer member; and a charging member which applies voltage to the intermediate transfer member so that a developer on the intermediate transfer member can be charged, the developer image being first primarily transferred to the intermediate transfer member by the primary transfer unit and then secondarily transferred to a recording material from the intermediate transfer member to form an image on the recording material, wherein the image forming apparatus operates in: a first mode in which a developer remaining on the intermediate transfer member after the developer image is secondarily transferred to the recording material is charged by the charging member and electrostatically removed from the intermediate transfer member; and a second mode in which the intermediate transfer member is driven in a state in which an absolute value of voltage applied to the charging member is smaller than in the first mode, and in which the developer bearing member and the image bearing member are in contact with each other, and a difference in potential between developing voltage and image bearing member charging voltage in the second mode differs from a difference in potential between developing voltage and image bearing member charging voltage in the first mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13960060', '14858124', '15264020', '13860707', '11874751']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8522188146983037
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5141028379407261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.818407217022546
- Mean Citation Score: 334.867248
- Max Citation Score: 351.51645
- Similarity Product: 287.06193960903886

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

Dataset: test