PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "030000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that determines presence or absence of bubbles with a simple configuration. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet using a liquid developer including toner and carrier liquid. An exposure unit exposes a photosensitive member charged by a charging unit to form an electrostatic latent image. A development unit stores the liquid developer and develops the electrostatic latent image using the liquid developer. A supplying unit supplies toner and carrier liquid to the development unit. A light receiving unit receives light that is emitted from a light emitting unit and passes through the liquid developer in the development unit, and to output an output value based on a light receiving amount. A controller determines whether a bubble is generating in the liquid developer according to a period after the output value exceeding the first threshold until falling below a second threshold.

Claim (Index 8):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the development unit has a thin tube, the light emitting unit irradiates the liquid developer flowing through the thin tube with light, and the light receiving unit receives the light that is transmitted through the thin tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03947
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12257236', '12257227', '12073619', '11354009', '13311636']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.817450066041872
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4860552183751024
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.784310581275195
- Mean Citation Score: 189.151976
- Max Citation Score: 194.37776
- Similarity Product: 124.1505251704502

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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