PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16124499
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a transfer member configured to form a transfer portion where the toner image is transferred from the image bearing member by being supplied with a transfer bias; a carrier liquid supplying portion configured to supply the carrier liquid to the transfer portion; a transfer bias voltage source capable of applying the transfer bias to the transfer portion; a detecting portion configured to detect at least one of a voltage and a current at the transfer portion; and a setting portion configured to set the transfer bias during non-image-formation on the basis of a detection result of the detecting portion when a setting bias is applied from the transfer member in a state in which the carrier liquid is in the transfer portion.

Claim (Index 21):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member; a charging device configured to charge said image bearing member; an exposure device configured to expose a surface of said image bearing member charged by said charging device to form an electrostatic latent image thereon; a developing device, rotatably provided with a developer bearing member bearing a liquid developer containing toner and a carrier liquid, configured to develop the electrostatic latent image on the surface of said image bearing member at a developing portion by being supplied with a developing bias with the toner when said developer bearing member and said image bearing member contact each other; a transfer device configured to transfer a toner image developed by said developing device from said image bearing member by being supplied with a transfer bias at a transfer portion; a source capable of applying the transfer bias to said transfer device; a detecting portion configured to detect at least one of a voltage applied to the transfer portion and a current flowing through the transfer portion when a test bias is applied to said transfer device; and a controller configured to set the transfer bias to be supplied to said transfer device during image formation on the basis of a detection result of said detecting portion, wherein said controller is configured to determine a value of the transfer bias so that a value of the current flowing through the transfer portion comes to a target current value or a value of the voltage applied to the transfer portion comes to a target voltage value on the basis of a detection result of said detecting portion, wherein said controller is configured to set the transfer bias to be supplied to said transfer device during image formation on the basis of the value of the transfer bias, and wherein said controller is configured to control said source and said developing device so as to supply the carrier liquid from said developer bearing member to said image bearing member and to supply the test bias to said transfer device after a leading end of a region of said image bearing member to which the carrier liquid is supplied in a predetermined period before execution of an image forming job after main switch actuation or during pre-rotation in an image forming job.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44643
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15611113', '12554110', '10665427', '15925560', '15244928']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8360107515335766
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5238030178371007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.804789978163929
- Mean Citation Score: 293.698204
- Max Citation Score: 375.24445
- Similarity Product: 339.02574135656954

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