PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906132
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
The image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charge member, a transfer unit, an application unit, a cleaning member, a detection unit that detects an index value, and a control unit that, in a case where one or a plurality of consecutive toner images for which the index value is equal to or greater than a first threshold value is formed, performs control which increases an absolute value of the transfer voltage for a toner image to be formed next, and in a case where one or a plurality of consecutive toner images for which the index value is less than a second threshold value equal to or greater than the first threshold value is formed, performs control which decreases an absolute value of the transfer voltage for a toner image to be formed next.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member configured to bear a toner image; a charge member configured to contact the image bearing member and charge the image bearing member; a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image to be transferred from the image bearing member to a transferred member; an application unit configured to apply a transfer voltage for transferring a toner image from the image bearing member to the transferred member, to the transfer unit; a cleaning member configured to contact the image bearing member and remove toner on the image bearing member from the image bearing member; a detection unit configured to detect an index value which correlates with a toner amount of each of toner images transferred to one sheet of the transfer material; a memory unit configured to revise a variable according to the index value and store the revised variable, the memory unit configured to change the variable in a first direction and store the changed variable in a case where the index value is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, the first direction being one of an increase direction and a decrease direction, and change the variable in a second direction and store the changed variable in a case where the index value is less than a second threshold value which is less than or equal to the first threshold value, the second direction being opposite to the first direction among the increase direction and the decrease direction; and a control unit configured to perform control to increase an absolute value of the transfer voltage for a toner image to be formed next in a case where the variable is changed in the first direction, and to decrease an absolute value of the transfer voltage for a toner image to be formed next in a case where the variable is changed in the second direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.79245
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15703198', '13897692', '14833255', '15642727', '15607308']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8133485746259559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4766260472152627
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7796763218848866
- Mean Citation Score: 227.31739
- Max Citation Score: 231.63306
- Similarity Product: 179.5737133349776

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

Dataset: test