PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16258397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "353000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier to which a lubricant is applied; a developing device that develops an electrostatic latent image carried on the image carrier with toner, and includes a casing accommodating a toner-containing developer and a developing sleeve supplying the image carrier with the toner contained in the developer accommodated in the casing; and a hardware processor that detects information indicating a state of lubricant adhesion to the developing sleeve, and performs, based on a result of the detection by the hardware processor, a lubricant removing operation as an operation for removing the lubricant adhering to the developing sleeve.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , further comprising\n an acquirer that acquires information indicating an environment of the image forming apparatus, wherein the hardware processor decides the reference value based on the information acquired by the acquirer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98214
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10923904', '11857070', '15450406', '12365021', '12906023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8182574040133661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4940594309503546
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7858376067070649
- Mean Citation Score: 233.382776
- Max Citation Score: 241.19699
- Similarity Product: 151.81396080893396

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