PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957081
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "038000"]

Abstract:
An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a medium conveyance device that conveys a continuous medium; an image formation unit that forms a developer image on the medium to print on the medium; a used condition detector that detects a used condition of the image formation unit; and a controller that controls the medium controller, the image formation unit, and the used condition detector. When it is determined that the image formation unit comes to a time for replacement during a printing operation, the controller selects whether to continue the printing operation based on the detection by the used condition detector.

Claim (Index 2):
The image formation apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the image formation unit includes\n a rotatable image carrier that carries thereon an electrostatic latent image, and \n a development member that develops the electrostatic latent image on the image carrier with a developer, and thereby forms the developer image on the image carrier, \n the used condition detector includes\n a rotation number measurement unit that measures a number of rotations of the image carrier, \n a consumption amount measurement unit that measures an amount of developer used to develop the electrostatic latent image, and \n a waste amount measurement unit that measures an amount of developer disposed of, and \n the controller selects whether to continue the printing operation in a case where it is determined that the image formation unit does not come to the time for replacement based on the amounts that have been measured by the consumption amount measurement unit and the waste amount measurement unit, and but comes to the time for replacement based on the number of rotations that has been measured by the rotation number measurement unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19608
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14528194', '15957436', '15046502', '13833199', '10896898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.820570763222985
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4723493783564831
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7857486247363348
- Mean Citation Score: 192.51158
- Max Citation Score: 200.81364
- Similarity Product: 151.11848772257562

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