PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16205701
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "128000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a rotatable intermediate transfer member; a first image forming portion having a first photosensitive member which rotates, a first developing unit, and a first charge eliminating unit; a second image forming portion that is located on a downstream side relative to the first image forming portion in a rotational direction of the intermediate transfer member, and that has a second photosensitive member which rotates, a second developing unit, and a second charge eliminating unit; a transfer unit; and a switching unit that switches a light amount of the second charge eliminating unit when a usage amount of the second image forming portion reaches a predetermined amount to a value that is greater than a light amount of the first charge eliminating unit when a usage amount of the first image forming portion reaches the predetermined amount.

Claim (Index 7):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a rotatable intermediate transfer member; a first image forming portion having a first photosensitive member which rotates, a first developing unit which develops an electrostatic latent image formed on the first photosensitive member, and a first charge eliminating unit which eliminates a charge from the first photosensitive member by exposing the first photosensitive member to light after a toner image formed by the first developing unit is transferred onto the intermediate transfer member; a second image forming portion that is located on a downstream side relative to the first image forming portion in a rotational direction of the intermediate transfer member, and that has a second photosensitive member which rotates, a second developing unit which develops an electrostatic latent image formed on the second photosensitive member, and a second charge eliminating unit which eliminates a charge from the second photosensitive member by exposing the second photosensitive member to light after a toner image formed by the second developing unit is transferred onto the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers a toner image which is formed on the intermediate transfer member onto a transfer material; and a switching unit that switches a light amount of the second charge eliminating unit when the second image forming portion forms images of a predetermined number of image formations at a predetermined image ratio to a value that is greater than a light amount of the first charge eliminating unit when the first image forming portion forms images of a predetermined number of image formations at a predetermined image ratio.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98039
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14052155', '14026255', '15153112', '13910854', '15185641']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8309707266451252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4843363068239121
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7963072846630039
- Mean Citation Score: 245.369752
- Max Citation Score: 254.28777
- Similarity Product: 196.2680416400814

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test