PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960565
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "223000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit that includes a first image holding member and a first developing unit, the first developing unit accommodating a first developer that includes a first toner and a first carrier; a first transfer unit; a second image forming unit that is disposed downstream of the first image forming unit in a traveling direction of a transfer medium and includes a second image holding member and a second developing unit, the second developing unit accommodating a second developer that includes a second toner and a second carrier; and a second transfer unit, in which a volume resistivity of the first carrier is higher than a volume resistivity of the second carrier, and a volume average particle diameter of the first carrier is more than a volume average particle diameter of the second carrier.

Claim (Index 12):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein three or more image forming units including the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit are disposed along the traveling direction of the transfer medium, and the first image forming unit is disposed on a most upstream side in the traveling direction of the transfer medium among the three or more image forming units.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.65854
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15956756', '14605174', '15333830', '13532231', '10606776']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8267528311783026
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5059159137494358
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.794669139435416
- Mean Citation Score: 243.011014
- Max Citation Score: 312.4834600000001
- Similarity Product: 240.2403821930528

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

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