PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16209736
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "004000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member including a photosensitive layer and a light transmitting surface layer provided outside the photosensitive layer; an exposing unit configured to expose the surface of the photosensitive member to a laser beam which deflects in a main scan direction substantially perpendicular to a moving direction of the surface of the photosensitive member, so that a latent image formed on the surface of the photosensitive member in the main scan direction; and a controller configured to control a pulse width of an image signal for switching, on the basis of image data, between projection and non-projection of the beam from the exposing unit. The controller controls the pulse width such that it is smaller than when the thickness of the surface layer is larger.

Claim (Index 4):
An image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein said controller controls said exposing unit such that a number of pixels of the image data of the image to be formed on the surface of said photosensitive member in the main scan direction is smaller as is closer to a central portion of said photosensitive member in the main scan direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0597
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15044935', '15291921', '13871341', '15221923', '12268781']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8231088821377629
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4839017682153285
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7891881707455195
- Mean Citation Score: 205.056852
- Max Citation Score: 209.82431
- Similarity Product: 142.9169677487445

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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