PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140644
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "027000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus prevents a situation in which in place of a container in which developer remains, a container other than the container is mounted. A toner bottle containing developer to be replenished to the developing device is mounted to a toner replenishment section. A sensor detects amount of developer in the developing device, and in a case where the detected amount of the developer is smaller than a predetermined amount, a first screen for prompting a user to replace the toner bottle is displayed. In a case where the toner bottle is removed without determining that the toner bottle satisfies a replacement condition, a second screen for prompting the user to remount the removed toner bottle is displayed. In a case where the detected amount of the developer is smaller than the predetermined amount while the second screen is displayed, the second screens continues to be displayed.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein in a case where the amount of the developer becomes smaller than the predetermined amount, if an output from the sensor does not change even after a predetermined replenishment operation for replenishing the developer from the mounted container to the developing device is performed by the replenishment unit, the determination unit determines that the replacement condition is satisfied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16139457', '15948213', '15945266', '14867420', '13470515']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8318427954667911
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4925718004619709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7979156959663091
- Mean Citation Score: 243.0183
- Max Citation Score: 280.7578
- Similarity Product: 227.4136680591583

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