PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140659
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "346000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a developer carrying member configured to contact with the image bearing member and to be separated from the image bearing member; a control unit for controlling the image bearing member and the developer carrying member; and a contact member disposed in contact with the image bearing member. The control unit is configured to sequentially execute: (1) rotating the image bearing member at a first speed in a separated state; (2) switching the image bearing member and the developer carrying member from the separated state to a contact state in a state in which the image bearing member rotates at the first speed; and (3) rotating the image bearing member by decreasing a rotation speed of the image bearing member from the first speed to a second speed smaller than the first speed in the contact state.

Claim (Index 3):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image bearing member; a developer carrying member configured to carry a developer and be able to take a contact state in which the developer carrying member contacts with the image bearing member and a separated state in which the developer carrying member is separated from the image bearing member; a control unit configured to control the image bearing member and the developer carrying member; and a contact member disposed in contact with a surface of the image bearing member, wherein the control unit is configured to sequentially execute: (1) rotating, when the image bearing member is rotated at a first speed in the contact state, the image bearing member at a second speed higher than the first speed by implementing switching from the first speed to the second speed in the contact state; and (2) switching from the contact state to the separated state when the image bearing member rotates at the second speed in the contact state, in order to switch from the contact state to the separated state when the image bearing member is rotated at the first speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01887
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15260619', '15888202', '10648285', '15077054', '14956761']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8251041712720668
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4901572762787421
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7916094817727344
- Mean Citation Score: 270.841746
- Max Citation Score: 276.73495
- Similarity Product: 217.05832202706927

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test