PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940226
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor; a developing device; a developer storage; a supplier configured to supply developer; an optical sensor; and a controller configured to execute: a developing process of developing an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor; a usage-amount obtaining process of obtaining a usage amount of the developer; a supplying process of supplying the developer to the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a first threshold; and a detecting process of detecting, by the optical sensor, an amount of the developer in the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and wherein the controller is configured to execute the detecting process in a period different from a period in which the developing process is being executed.

Claim (Index 15):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the agitator includes a rotation axis parallel to an axis of the developing roller, and wherein the light emitted from the light emitting portion passes between the rotation axis and the supplier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15940213', '11431967', '12550273', '15939513', '11521559']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8289876361769204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5289260317579614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7989814757350245
- Mean Citation Score: 257.411098
- Max Citation Score: 389.77567
- Similarity Product: 243.13954592482625

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