PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16181668
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "072000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer, a charger to charge the latent image bearer with a charging bias obtained by superimposing a charge fluctuation voltage to reduce an image density fluctuation on a direct current charging voltage, a writing device to write a latent image on the latent image bearer with writing intensity obtained by superimposing fluctuating writing intensity to reduce an image density fluctuation on constant writing intensity, a developing sleeve to which a developing bias obtained by superimposing a fluctuating developing voltage to reduce an image density fluctuation on a direct current developing voltage is applied to develop the latent image, and circuitry to control the charging bias, the writing intensity, and the developing bias. The circuitry changes the charge fluctuation voltage and the fluctuating developing voltage depending on whether the writing device writes the latent image with the fluctuating writing intensity.

Claim (Index 3):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a latent image bearer; a charger to charge a surface of the latent image bearer with a superimposed charging bias obtained by superimposing a fluctuating charging voltage to reduce an image density fluctuation on a direct current charging voltage; a writing device to write a latent image on the surface of the latent image bearer with superimposed writing intensity obtained by superimposing fluctuating writing intensity to reduce an image density fluctuation on constant writing intensity; a developing sleeve to which a superimposed developing bias obtained by superimposing a fluctuating developing voltage to reduce an image density fluctuation on a direct current developing voltage is applied to develop the latent image with developer; and circuitry to control the superimposed charging bias, the superimposed writing intensity, and the superimposed developing bias, the circuitry changing the fluctuating writing intensity between when the fluctuating charging voltage and the fluctuating developing voltage are supplied and when the fluctuating charging voltage and the fluctuating developing voltage are not supplied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.22917
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15447696', '15713838', '14971106', '15090252', '14802322']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.841007804360535
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5343279010150555
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8103398140259871
- Mean Citation Score: 352.211196
- Max Citation Score: 410.72565
- Similarity Product: 323.5261698129236

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