PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16111548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "063000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a developing device, an image bearing member, an image density detecting portion, a toner content detecting portion, a humidity sensor, a supplying portion, and a controller configured to control the supplying portion so that a toner content is between an upper limit and a lower limit thereof. The controller can execute setting control in which the target value of the toner content is set on the basis of an image density of a reference toner image. The controller sets the lower limit until execution of subsequent setting control, wherein the lower limit is higher when a humidity is a first humidity and an average image ratio is a first ratio than when the humidity is a second humidity higher than the first humidity and the average image ratio is a second ratio larger than the first ratio.

Claim (Index 9):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a developing device configured to develop an electrostatic latent image into a toner image with a developer containing toner and a carrier; an image bearing member configured to bear the toner image formed by said developing device; an image density detecting portion configured to detect an image density of the toner image on said image bearing member; a toner content detecting portion configured to detect a toner content of the developer in said developing device; a humidity sensor portion configured to detect a humidity; supplying portion configured to supply the developer to said developing device; and a controller configured to control said supplying portion so that the toner content detected by said toner content detecting portion is target value and configured to cause said supplying portion to supply the developer to said developing device, wherein said controller is capable of executing setting control in which a reference toner image for toner content control is formed on said image bearing member and the target value of the toner content is set on the basis of an image density of the reference toner image detected by said image density detecting portion, and wherein when said controller executes the setting control, said controller sets the target value until execution of subsequent setting control, wherein the target value is higher when a humidity is a first humidity and an average image ratio is a first ratio than when the humidity is a second humidity higher than the first humidity and the average image ratio is a second ratio larger than the first ratio.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4918
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15643846', '15951276', '15642169', '15869841', '15642727']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8370495946159799
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5159603886295431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8049406740173363
- Mean Citation Score: 320.901074
- Max Citation Score: 356.6565
- Similarity Product: 293.9731786336899

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

Dataset: test