PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961005
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["375", "224000"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus includes: a terminal to which a pulse signal is input from an external apparatus; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a count value during a first cycle that is a cycle of the pulse signal; and a transmitting unit configured to, during a period of data transmission, increase or decrease an electric current that flows between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus according to a data value of data to be transmitted. The transmitting unit is further configured to perform switching on the data to be transmitted at least once during the first cycle, and determine a data switch timing during the first cycle based on the count value.

Claim (Index 28):
An image forming apparatus to which a replacement unit can be attached, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n a first terminal that outputs a reference voltage to the replacement unit; a generating unit configured to generate a pulse signal; a second terminal that outputs the pulse signal generated by the generating unit to the replacement unit; and a determining unit configured to, during a period of data transmission from the replacement unit, determine a data value of data transmitted from the replacement unit by comparing an electric current that flows between the image forming apparatus and the replacement unit via the first terminal with a threshold value, wherein the generating unit is further configured to generate a pulse signal of a first cycle during the period of data transmission from the replacement unit, and the determining unit is further configured to determine a determination timing of determining the data value of data transmitted from the replacement unit during the period of data transmission from the replacement unit based on a period obtained by dividing the first cycle by a predetermined integer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08621
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11681561', '12983050', '13062937', '12991379', '12907514']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4065453640194681
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4693276362160182
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4128235912391231
- Mean Citation Score: 141.82632800000005
- Max Citation Score: 143.51236
- Similarity Product: 108.70694200613023

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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