PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16158241
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "101000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image forming unit that forms a toner image on an image carrier body. A primary transfer member transfers the toner image formed on the image carrier body onto an intermediate transfer body. A secondary transfer member transfers the toner image from the intermediate transfer body onto a recording medium. A control unit applies a cleaning bias to the secondary transfer member while an idle operation of the secondary transfer member is being performed before the toner image is secondarily transferred onto the transferring target material.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming method carried out by an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:\n receiving a print job for printing a plurality of pages; forming an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier based on image data of an Nth page of the pages of the print job; providing toner to the image carrier having the electrostatic latent image formed thereon to form a toner image of the Nth page on the image carrier; applying a primary transfer bias to a primary transfer member to transfer the toner image of the Nth page formed on the image carrier onto an intermediate transfer body; applying a secondary transfer bias to a secondary transfer member to transfer the toner image of the Nth page from the intermediate transfer body onto a recording medium; and when the Nth page is a first page in the print job, applying a cleaning bias to the secondary transfer member during an idle operation of the secondary transfer member, wherein the idle operation is performed after the toner image of the first page is transferred onto the recording medium and before another toner image is transferred onto a subsequent recording medium with respect to a page subsequent to the first page.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0625
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15394131', '11208892', '10452760', '14276082', '12163012']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8084809158675269
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5155892950078709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7791917537815614
- Mean Citation Score: 243.644384
- Max Citation Score: 352.24457
- Similarity Product: 294.3513577591527

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