PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868495
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a transfer material in an image forming mode, includes: a photoreceptor rotatable in a predetermined rotation direction; a developer that forms a toner image on the photoreceptor using a two-component developing agent including toner and a carrier; a transferor that transfers the toner image on the photoreceptor onto the transfer material; a carrier collector that applies an electric field corresponding to a collecting bias to a carrier adhering to the photoreceptor to collect the carrier; a carrier detector that detects a carrier remaining on the photoreceptor after collecting the carrier by the carrier collector; and a hardware processor that sets the collecting bias in the image forming mode on the basis of the amount of carriers detected by the carrier detector when a carrier adhesion detecting mode for forcibly causing a carrier to adhere to the photoreceptor is executed.

Claim (Index 11):
The non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable control program according to  claim 10 ,\n wherein, in the setting of the collecting bias, the amount of carriers remaining on the photoreceptor is measured in each of cases where, around a predetermined reference bias serving as a reference for carrier collection, a direct current component of the collecting bias is set to a first and a second collecting biases which have a voltage higher than that of the predetermined reference bias and have different magnitudes from each other and at a third and a fourth collecting biases which have a voltage lower than that of the reference bias and have different magnitudes from each other, and the collecting bias is set to a collecting bias with which the amount of carriers remaining on the photoreceptor becomes the smallest on the basis of a relationship between the first to the fourth collecting biases and the amount of carriers remaining on the photoreceptor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12906023', '11338919', '10941007', '14597313', '10870557']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8281719941962876
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5016357766534768
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7955183724420065
- Mean Citation Score: 219.632478
- Max Citation Score: 241.7112
- Similarity Product: 140.81097480039597

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