PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "045000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member configured to bear a toner image formed using a liquid developer containing toner particles and a carrier liquid, a transfer member, an input portion into which information on a kind of a recording material is inputted, an adjusting device configured to adjust an amount of the carrier liquid of the toner image, and an executing portion configured to execute an operation of the adjusting device depending on the information when the toner image is in the adjusting position. The executing position executes either of a plurality of operations including a first operation in which the amount of the carrier liquid of the toner image is increased, a second operation in which the amount of the carrier liquid is decreased, and a third operation in which the amount of the carrier liquid is not adjusted.

Claim (Index 14):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member movable in a predetermined movement direction and configured to bear a toner image formed at an image forming position by using a liquid developer containing toner particles and a carrier liquid; a transfer member configured to transfer the toner image onto a recording material at a transfer portion formed between said transfer member and said image bearing member; an input portion into which is inputted information on a kind of the recording material onto which the toner image is transferred; an adjusting device configured to adjust an amount of the carrier liquid of the toner image on said image bearing member, wherein said adjusting device is provided at an adjusting position opposing a position of said image bearing member upstream of the transfer portion and downstream of the image forming position with respect to the movement direction and includes a carrier liquid container configured to store the carrier liquid, a rotatable adjusting roller configured to carry the carrier liquid stored in said carrier liquid container, and a contacting-and-spacing mechanism movable between a contact position where said adjusting roller is contacted to said image bearing member and a spaced position where said adjusting roller is spaced from said image bearing member; and an executing portion configured to execute an operation of said adjusting device depending on the information inputted in said input portion when the toner image on said image bearing member is at the adjusting position, wherein said executing portion executes any of a plurality of operations including a first operation in which the amount of the carrier liquid of the toner image on said image bearing member is increased by said adjusting device, and a second operation in which the amount of the carrier liquid of the toner image on said image bearing member is decreased by said adjusting device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47541
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15622565', '15611113', '15556683', '12554110', '14840564']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7862495456617035
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5281077973383439
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7604353708293675
- Mean Citation Score: 272.513522
- Max Citation Score: 368.97498
- Similarity Product: 364.3361640825392

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