PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154115
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "049000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes image forming devices, image output devices, an endless conveyor, a transfer device, holders, a detector, and circuitry. The image forming devices include image bearers. The image output devices form latent images on the image bearers. The image forming devices form visible images from the latent images. The transfer device transfers the visible images onto the endless conveyor that conveys the visible images in an image conveyance direction. The holders hold the image forming devices interchangeable at holding positions aligned in the image conveyance direction. The detector detects the visible images. The circuitry compares a first visible image of the visible images formed at a specific holding position of the holding positions with a second visible image of the visible images formed at another holding position of the holding positions on the endless conveyor, to correct misalignment between the first and second visible images.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of image forming devices corresponding to a plurality of colors, the plurality of image forming devices including a plurality of image bearers; a plurality of image output devices to form a plurality of latent pattern images on the plurality of image bearers, the plurality of image forming devices forming a plurality of visible pattern images from the plurality of latent pattern images; an endless conveyor; a transfer device to transfer the plurality of visible pattern images from the plurality of image bearers onto the endless conveyor; the endless conveyor conveying the plurality of visible pattern images in an image conveyance direction; a plurality of holders to hold the plurality of image forming devices interchangeable at a plurality of holding positions aligned in the image conveyance direction, the plurality of holding positions including a specific holding position; a detector to detect the plurality of visible pattern images on the endless conveyor; and circuitry to compare a first visible pattern image of the plurality of visible pattern images with a second visible pattern image of the plurality of visible pattern images to correct misalignment between the first visible pattern image and the second visible pattern image, the first visible pattern image being formed by one of the plurality of image forming devices held at the specific holding position and transferred onto the endless conveyor, the second visible pattern image being formed by another one of the plurality of image forming devices held at another holding position of the plurality of holding positions and transferred onto the endless conveyor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91071
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14732127', '15876498', '13609737', '11790756', '12723813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8101621762769213
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4656230371861562
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7757082623678448
- Mean Citation Score: 211.48058
- Max Citation Score: 217.30377
- Similarity Product: 180.28688548121448

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

Dataset: test