PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16209736
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "004000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member including a photosensitive layer and a light transmitting surface layer provided outside the photosensitive layer; an exposing unit configured to expose the surface of the photosensitive member to a laser beam which deflects in a main scan direction substantially perpendicular to a moving direction of the surface of the photosensitive member, so that a latent image formed on the surface of the photosensitive member in the main scan direction; and a controller configured to control a pulse width of an image signal for switching, on the basis of image data, between projection and non-projection of the beam from the exposing unit. The controller controls the pulse width such that it is smaller than when the thickness of the surface layer is larger.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a rotatable photosensitive member including a photosensitive layer and a light transmitting surface layer provided outside said photosensitive layer; an exposing unit configured to expose said surface of said photosensitive member to a laser beam which deflects in a main scan direction substantially perpendicular to a moving direction of said surface of said photosensitive member, so that a latent image formed on said surface of said photosensitive member in the main scan direction; and a controller configured to control a pulse width of an image signal for switching, on the basis of image data, between projection and non-projection of the laser beam from said exposing unit, wherein said controller control the pulse width such that the pulse width is smaller than when the thickness of said surface layer is larger.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0597
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15044935', '15291921', '13871341', '15221923', '12268781']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8091326243351321
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4556400670426247
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7737833686058815
- Mean Citation Score: 205.056852
- Max Citation Score: 209.82431
- Similarity Product: 186.3648234150547

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