PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16065936
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "050000"]

Abstract:
Examples of charging a photoconductive layer in an image forming apparatus are described. In one example, a method comprises applying a charging voltage to the photoconductive layer and measuring surface voltages of the photoconductive layer at a plurality of positions on the photoconductive layer. Based on the measured surface voltages, a correction voltage profile is determined. The determined correction voltage profile comprises at least a first correction voltage associated with a first position on the photoconductive layer and a second correction voltage associated with a second position, different to the first position, on the photoconductive layer. The method comprises applying the first correction voltage to the photoconductive layer and applying the second correction voltage to the photoconductive layer.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a photoconductive unit comprising a photoconductive layer; a charging unit; a measuring unit; and a controller, wherein:\n the charging unit is controllable by the controller to apply a charging voltage to the photoconductive layer; \n the measuring unit is controllable by the controller to measure surface voltages of the photoconductive layer at a plurality of positions on the photoconductive layer; \n the controller to:\n based on the measured surface voltages, determine a correction voltage profile, wherein the determined correction voltage profile comprises:\n a first correction voltage associated with a first position on the photoconductive layer; and \n a second correction voltage associated with a second position, different to the first position, on the photoconductive layer; \n \n initiate application of the first correction voltage to the first position on the photoconductive layer; and \n initiate application of the second correction voltage to the second position on the photoconductive layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76087
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15749058', '14901402', '11457868', '11541550', '10825015']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7518777817066558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4681468264875589
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7235046861847461
- Mean Citation Score: 140.76360400000004
- Max Citation Score: 170.73955
- Similarity Product: 128.93207154347894

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

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