PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011145
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "258000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt, a density sensor, a cleaning device and a density correction unit. The intermediate transfer belt carries a calibration toner image. The density sensor detects a density of the calibration toner image that passes at a predetermined position. The cleaning device contacts to a part of the intermediate transfer belt in a primary scanning direction, and removes from the intermediate transfer belt the calibration toner image that passed at the predetermined position. The density correction unit performs density correction of a printing toner image in the primary scanning direction. Further, the density correction unit changes a strength of the density correction for a contact range to which the cleaning device contacts on the intermediate transfer belt, the strength changed in accordance with the number of times of a calibration process.

Claim (Index 14):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an intermediate transfer belt configured to carry a calibration toner image; a density sensor configured to detect a density of the calibration toner image that passes at a predetermined position; a cleaning device configured to (a) contact to a part of the intermediate transfer belt in a primary scanning direction in a calibration process and (b) remove from the intermediate transfer belt the calibration toner image that passed at the predetermined position; and a calibration processing unit configured to (a) change a position in a primary scanning direction at which the calibration toner image is carried, and (b) move the density sensor and the cleaning device in the primary scanning direction in accordance with the change of the position of the calibration toner image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61404
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15244935', '15807362', '14757536', '16011088', '15636606']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8228268658602537
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4932807859295526
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7898722578671836
- Mean Citation Score: 267.02371800000003
- Max Citation Score: 277.08017
- Similarity Product: 206.47450498025407

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