PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901357
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "043000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus executes charging, exposure, toner-supply suspension, and electric-field generation while a photosensitive member rotates at least a full turn. In the charging, a charger charges a portion of a circumferential surface of the photosensitive member. In the exposure, an exposure device exposes the portion, which has been charged in the charging, of the circumferential surface. In the toner-supply suspension, before the portion, which has been exposed in the exposure, of the circumferential surface passes a position at which developer from a developing unit is configured to initially adhere to the circumferential surface, a developing unit stops supplying developer to the photosensitive member. In the electric-field generation, an electric field is generated in a portion of the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive member corresponding to the portion, which has been exposed in the second exposure, of the circumferential surface.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the photosensitive member further includes a cylindrical base whose outer circumferential surface has the photosensitive layer formed thereon, wherein the electric circuit is a photosensitive drum voltage application circuit electrically connected to the cylindrical base and the controller, the photosensitive drum voltage application circuit configured to apply a drum voltage to the cylindrical base, and wherein, in the second-electric-field generation, controlling the electric circuit to apply the voltage includes controlling the photosensitive drum voltage application circuit to apply, to the cylindrical base, the drum voltage having the same polarity as a charge voltage that is applied to the charger in the second charging.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15901457', '15585440', '12946099', '12822273', '14704773']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.834775081274952
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5326186921938614
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.804559442366843
- Mean Citation Score: 280.45331600000003
- Max Citation Score: 408.09195
- Similarity Product: 255.9287607241273

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