PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868495
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a transfer material in an image forming mode, includes: a photoreceptor rotatable in a predetermined rotation direction; a developer that forms a toner image on the photoreceptor using a two-component developing agent including toner and a carrier; a transferor that transfers the toner image on the photoreceptor onto the transfer material; a carrier collector that applies an electric field corresponding to a collecting bias to a carrier adhering to the photoreceptor to collect the carrier; a carrier detector that detects a carrier remaining on the photoreceptor after collecting the carrier by the carrier collector; and a hardware processor that sets the collecting bias in the image forming mode on the basis of the amount of carriers detected by the carrier detector when a carrier adhesion detecting mode for forcibly causing a carrier to adhere to the photoreceptor is executed.

Claim (Index 13):
The non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable control program according to  claim 12 ,\n wherein the image forming apparatus further comprises: an adhesive roller that abuts against the photoreceptor during execution of the carrier adhesion mode and rotates in accordance with the rotation of the photoreceptor to adsorb a carrier on the photoreceptor; and a detection sensor that detects the carrier adhering to the adhesive roller, in the setting of the collecting bias, a cumulative amount of carriers adhering to the adhesive roller in a cumulative manner when a value of a condition related to the collecting bias is continuously varied is measured, and the collecting bias is set to a collecting bias with which the amount of change in the cumulative amount of carriers before and after varying the value of the condition is the minimum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12906023', '11338919', '10941007', '14597313', '10870557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8276918447860462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5053410351693817
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7954567638243798
- Mean Citation Score: 219.632478
- Max Citation Score: 241.7112
- Similarity Product: 131.95660978360175

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