PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
There is demand to reduce the amount of developing agent fed to a cleaning member. The amount of developing agent that is fed to the cleaning member is decided based on the amount of developing agent recovered by the cleaning member or the amount of use of a process cartridge.

Claim (Index 12):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 9 ,\n wherein two or more unused toner cartridges can be used per one process cartridge, wherein, with regard to one process cartridge, the supply amount at an initial point in the supply process of developing agent after having mounted a first unused toner cartridge to the apparatus main body is less than the supply amount at the initial point in the supply process of developing agent after having mounted a second or subsequent unused toner cartridge to the apparatus main body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10532979', '11043654', '14086483', '10743406', '12973181']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8320438611378783
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872475084210422
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7975642258661948
- Mean Citation Score: 234.61992200000003
- Max Citation Score: 240.26254
- Similarity Product: 173.04740710537914

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