PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985025
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "012000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a printing device, an ultrasonic sensor, and a controller. The printing device to which a toner container is mounted is configured to perform printing using toner in the toner container. The ultrasonic sensor arranged so as to correspond to a mounting position of the toner container is configured to (a) output an ultrasonic wave to a specific position of the toner container, (b) detect the ultrasonic wave that passes through the toner container, and (c) output a detection signal corresponding to an intensity of the detected ultrasonic wave. The controller is configured to determine whether the toner container is a genuine product or not on the basis of a level of the detection signal of the ultrasonic sensor when the toner container is mounted.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein a housing of the toner container has at a specific position a thickness corresponding to production timing of the toner container;\n the ultrasonic sensor outputs the detection signal of a level corresponding to the thickness; and \n the controller (a) determines that the toner container is a genuine product if a level of the detection signal of the ultrasonic sensor is a level corresponding to a time point within a production term of the toner container; and (b) determines that the toner container is not a genuine product if a level of the detection signal of the ultrasonic sensor is not a level corresponding to any time point within a production term of the toner container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15139860', '15165302', '13049668', '14924198', '15340557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8118055969426339
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4722587867748383
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7778509159258543
- Mean Citation Score: 168.02891599999995
- Max Citation Score: 182.95023
- Similarity Product: 131.36728235361815

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