PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15943948
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "302000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit that forms an image by using first toner; a second image forming unit that forms an image by using another kind of toner different from the first toner; a transfer unit that transfers the images formed by the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit onto an intermediate transfer body and then onto a recording medium; and a setting unit that sets an order of the images that are transferred onto the intermediate transfer body so that the image formed from the other kind of toner is transferred onto an independent image formed from the first toner transferred onto the intermediate transfer body in a case where the independent image formed from the first toner is to be formed on the recording medium.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein\n the threshold value used to determine whether or not to set the order so that the image formed from the other kind of toner is transferred onto the independent image formed from the first toner is the number of layers larger than approximately one layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13406070', '14499761', '13613292', '12557997', '12163012']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8345935272146564
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4862900282917353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7997631773223643
- Mean Citation Score: 240.288398
- Max Citation Score: 251.78001
- Similarity Product: 192.49074554831387

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