PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925115
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "024000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprises an expendable item having a specific function, installed replaceably with respect to a main body of the image forming apparatus, wherein there are several types of expendable items, and an engine control unit. The engine control unit judges end of lifetime of the expendable item by using one of a plurality of lifetime judgment methods. The engine control unit selects a lifetime judgment method used in the judgment, according to a type of the expendable item. It makes possible to provide an image forming apparatus capable of appropriately determining the reaching of the lifetime end of expendable items.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 6 , further comprising:\n sets of a developing unit and a photosensitive member unit of plural colors, as the expendable items, wherein the hardware processor selects the lifetime judgment method only by number of times as a lifetime judgment method for one of the expendable items in a set of the developing unit and the photosensitive member unit of a certain color, when the type of one of the expendable items in the set is the genuine product and the type of the other expendable item in the set is not the genuine product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11194884', '10225244', '10382062', '11064026', '11024760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8003168165523417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4933859968815817
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7696237345852657
- Mean Citation Score: 199.486404
- Max Citation Score: 239.109
- Similarity Product: 153.4639297209978

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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