PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966741
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "110000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former having parts provided in a replaceable manner to be used for image formation; a sensing part that detects a characteristic value of the parts; and a controller that determines whether the characteristic value of the parts, which fluctuates immediately after manufacture, is in a stable state based on a comparison between information regarding the characteristic value of the parts based on a detection result of the sensing part and a threshold value and sets a process condition for the image former based on the detected characteristic value when determining that the characteristic value of the parts is not in the stable state.

Claim (Index 10):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein\n the sensing part includes: a light emitter that irradiates an outer circumferential surface of the intermediate transfer body with light; and a light receiver that receives reflected light from the intermediate transfer body, and the controller calculates a film thickness change rate of the intermediate transfer body for a predetermined period based on a reflectance of the reflected light in accordance with a detection result of the sensing part and determines whether the surface layer film thickness of the intermediate transfer body, which fluctuates immediately after manufacture, is in the stable state based on a comparison between the calculated film thickness change rate of the surface layer film thickness of the intermediate transfer body and a threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9661
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10886638', '10886613', '12033319', '15142424', '12929808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7895846432094826
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4818297091415557
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.75880914980269
- Mean Citation Score: 183.982274
- Max Citation Score: 190.52693
- Similarity Product: 135.68639496327106

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