PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16374889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "060000"]

Abstract:
A developer carrying member for carrying a developer containing toner and a carrier and for developing an electrostatic image on a photosensitive member, a developer container in which the developer is electrically charged and is carried on the developer carrying member, a detecting portion for detecting a toner content, a video count means for counting and integrating the number of development dots of entirety of an image, and a supplying device for supplying a developer for supply to the developer container depending on a consumption amount of the toner are provided, and first and second toner supply amounts are acquired on the basis of outputs of the video count means and the detecting portion, and in the case where as regards a final toner supply amount determined on the basis of the first and second toner supply amounts, a fluctuation in predetermined during printing is increased from a first value to a second value, a ratio of the second toner supply amount to the first toner supply amount is decreased.

Claim (Index 9):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member; a developer carrying member for carrying a developer containing toner and a carrier and for developing an electrostatic image formed on said image bearing member; a developer container for accommodating the developer to be supplied to said developer container; a detecting portion for detecting a toner content in the developer in said developer container; a supplying device for supplying the toner to said developer container; and a controller for controlling an amount of the toner supplied from said supplying device to said developer container on the basis of a first toner supply amount acquired on the basis of an image ratio of an image formed on said image bearing member and a second toner supply amount acquired so that the toner content is a target value on the basis of an output of said detecting portion, wherein said controller controls the amount of the toner so that an amount of the toner supplied after continuous image formation of images with a second image ratio of 30% or more is started after continuous image formation of a preset number of images with a first image ratio of 5% or less is less than an amount of the toner supplied after image formation of a preset number of images with the second image ratio of 30% or more.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5942
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15643846', '15642169', '15642727', '15951276', '12711832']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8320947830057359
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5208692075133258
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8009722254564949
- Mean Citation Score: 310.40422
- Max Citation Score: 369.5728
- Similarity Product: 321.76093411169046

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

Dataset: test