PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976057
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "223000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transferor to rotate in a predetermined rotation direction, a plurality of image bearers disposed along the intermediate transferor to bear latent images, a plurality of developing devices to develop the latent images, a plurality of developer containers to contain developers, and a plurality of conveyance paths each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of developing devices and a respective one of the plurality of developer containers to supply the developers to the plurality of developing devices respectively. An arrangement of the plurality of developing devices in the predetermined rotation direction is configured to be changed without changing an arrangement of the plurality of developer containers. A layout of the plurality of conveyance paths is configured to be changed without changing connections between a supply source and a supply destination of the plurality of conveyance paths.

Claim (Index 13):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a plurality of conveyance pumps each detachably coupled to a downstream opening of a respective one of the plurality of conveyance paths, a valve disposed in a middle of at least one of the plurality of conveyance paths to open and close the at least one of the plurality of conveyance paths; a second conveyance path to branch from the at least one of the plurality of conveyance paths at a position downstream from the valve; and a cover to open and close a tip opening of the second conveyance path, wherein when a supply mode is executed to supply developer to a supplied portion as the supply destination, one of the plurality of conveyance pumps corresponding to the at least one of the plurality of conveyance paths operates in a state in which the valve opens the at least one of the plurality of conveyance paths and the cover closes the tip opening of the second conveyance path, and wherein when a cleaning mode is executed to clean an interior of the at least one of the plurality of conveyance paths and the second conveyance path, the one of the plurality of conveyance pumps corresponding to the at least one of the plurality of conveyance paths operates in a state in which the valve closes the at least one of the plurality of conveyance paths and the cover opens the tip opening of the second conveyance path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15956790', '12253538', '12710412', '12881822', '12009391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8016738764204024
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5164167282391695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7731481616022792
- Mean Citation Score: 219.787874
- Max Citation Score: 349.51514
- Similarity Product: 260.8740793132746

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

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