PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019572
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "076000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, an intermediary transfer member, an image forming portion, a cleaning blade, a motor, and an executing portion capable of executing an operation in an operating mode after an end of the image formation. In the operation in the operating mode, the executing portion is capable of executing a toner supplying operation, a stopping operation of the intermediary transfer member moving in the normal direction, and a reversely moving operation in which the intermediary transfer member is moved in an opposite direction to a normal direction and then is stopped. When the supplying operation is not executed, after an end of the image formation, the stopping operation is executed and then the reversely moving operation is executed. When the supplying operation is executed, after the supplying operation is carried out, the stopping operation is executed but the reversely moving operation is not executed.

Claim (Index 7):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a movable photosensitive member; an image forming portion configured to form an image by forming a toner image on a surface of said photosensitive member and thereafter by transferring the toner image onto a recording material; a cleaning blade contacting the surface of said photosensitive member at a contact portion and configured to remove a deposited matter deposited on the surface of said photosensitive member with movement of said photosensitive member; a motor configured to move said photosensitive member by being rotationally driven, wherein said motor is capable of moving said photosensitive member in a normal direction in which said photosensitive member moves in an image forming period and in an opposite direction to the normal direction; and an executing portion capable of executing an operation in an operating mode after an end of the image formation, wherein in the operation in the operating mode, said executing portion is capable of executing: a supplying operation in which toner is supplied to the contact portion by forming a supplying toner image on said photosensitive member moving in the normal direction after an upstreammost portion, with respect to the normal direction, of a last toner image which is primary-transferred before said photosensitive member stops is formed on said photosensitive member, a stopping operation in which said photosensitive member moving in the normal direction is stopped, and a reversely moving operation in which said photosensitive member is moved in the opposite direction and then is stopped, wherein a distance of movement of said photosensitive member in the opposite direction is not less than a distance of the contact portion with respect to a movement direction of said photosensitive member, wherein said executing portion executes the operation in the following manner depending on whether or not the supplying operation is executed: i) when the supplying operation is not executed, after an end of the image formation, the stopping operation is executed and then the reversely moving operation is executed, and ii) when the supplying operation is executed, after the supplying operation is carried out, the stopping operation is executed but the reversely moving operation is not executed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.32
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16020211', '13454294', '14501819', '11944899', '14810153']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7918272872082762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.498958064508885
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7625403649383371
- Mean Citation Score: 259.308056
- Max Citation Score: 283.6747
- Similarity Product: 225.85108675564527

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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