PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179286
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "101000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image transfer belt; a first transfer member; a second transfer member opposed to the first transfer member with the belt therebetween to; an applying device for applying a voltage at least one of the first and second transfer members; and a controller for controlling the applying device to apply to the at least one transfer member a voltage having the same polarity as a regular polarity of toner and a voltage of the opposite a first transfer member cleaning operation. The controller changes a number of image formations to be carried out from a cleaning operation to a next cleaning operation depending on the kind of the sheet. The number controlled by the controller is different depending on the kind of the sheets in a continuous printing job.

Claim (Index 6):
An apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein said controller is capable of changing a number of sets of applications of the voltages of the same and opposite polarities in one cleaning operation in one duration on the basis of a detection result of said smoothness sensor, wherein the number of the sets is a first number in a case of the first continuous job, and the number of the sets is a second number in a case of the second continuous job, and the second number is larger than the first number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2381
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13593791', '12026955', '14932312', '12026970', '15248754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8132245496586903
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5159038665433069
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.783492481347152
- Mean Citation Score: 271.13181000000003
- Max Citation Score: 286.79233
- Similarity Product: 168.5660090139246

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