PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16092759
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
The invention achieves uniform image quality for every transfer regardless of a moisture content on a surface of a paper sheet when a plurality of transfer processes is to be made on a single paper. A copier ( 1 A) is provided with a optical sensor ( 20 ) which includes at least one light source, illuminates a paper sheet (P) with light, receives the light reflected from the paper sheet (P), and measures the received light intensity. Before each of a plurality of transfer processes, the copier ( 1 A) calculates a moisture content on a surface of the paper sheet (P) from the light intensity measured by the optical sensor ( 20 ), and sets a transfer condition of a transfer device ( 15 ) based on the calculated moisture content on the surface of the paper sheet (P).

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming device provided with an image carrier that carries a developed image obtained by developing an electrostatic latent image based on image data with a developing agent, and a transfer unit that performs a transfer process to transfer the developed image to a paper sheet, in which the transfer process is capable of being performed on the paper sheet a plurality of times, the image forming device comprising:\n a measurement unit provided with at least one light source, configured to illuminate the paper sheet with light, receive the light reflected from the paper sheet, and measure intensity of the light; and a setter configured to, before each of the plurality of times of the transfer processes, calculate a moisture content on a surface of the paper sheet from the light intensity measured by the measurement unit, and set a transfer condition of the transfer unit in accordance with the moisture content on the surface of the paper sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40909
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15904706', '12385742', '15016532', '13243932', '15698050']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7722858237770724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4821873969850127
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7432759810978664
- Mean Citation Score: 200.428028
- Max Citation Score: 251.50526
- Similarity Product: 217.9214276231718

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