PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16130174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus, including: an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; an image bearing member charging unit which applies image bearing member charging voltage; a developer bearing member to which developing voltage for developing the electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member is applied and which bears and transports a developer; a primary transfer unit which transfers a developer image on the image bearing member to an intermediate transfer member; and a charging member which charges a developer on the intermediate transfer member, the developer image being first primarily transferred and then secondarily transferred to a recording material, wherein the image forming apparatus operates in: a first mode in which a residual developer on the intermediate transfer member after the secondary transfer is electrostatically removed from the intermediate transfer member; and a second mode.

Claim (Index 10):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developer bearing member which bears a developer for developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member; a developer control member which controls an amount of the developer on the developer bearing member; an intermediate transfer member which is provided with a transfer unit and in which a developer image developed on the image bearing member is primarily transferred to the transfer unit due to the transfer unit and the image bearing member coming into contact with each other and the developer image is further secondarily transferred from the transfer unit to a recording material due to the transfer unit and the recording material coming into contact with each other; a charging member which charges a developer on the intermediate transfer member; and a cleaning unit capable of executing a cleaning mode in which a developer remaining on the intermediate transfer member after being secondarily transferred from the intermediate transfer member to the recording material is charged by the charging member and removed from the intermediate transfer member, wherein when executing the cleaning mode during a non-image formation period in which an image is not formed, the cleaning unit reduces an absolute value of voltage applied to the charging member and, at the same time, sets a difference in potential \u0394Vb of voltage applied to the developer control member relative to voltage applied to the developer bearing member to a value on a side of a same polarity as a normal charging polarity of the developer, as compared to when executing the cleaning mode during an image formation period in which an image is formed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13960060', '14858124', '15264020', '13860707', '11874751']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.852409677390243
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5153838957423139
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8187070992254502
- Mean Citation Score: 334.867248
- Max Citation Score: 351.51645
- Similarity Product: 258.6167951605886

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

Dataset: test