PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049846
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "072000"]

Abstract:
A controller controls a charging unit to charge a photosensitive member so that a surface potential of the photosensitive member is controlled to a first potential, controls an exposure unit to expose the photosensitive member so that a potential of an exposure region on the photosensitive member is controlled to a second potential, controls a surface potential of a developing sleeve of a developing unit to a third potential; and forms a test image on a sheet by controlling the photosensitive member, the charging unit, the exposure unit, and the developing unit. An absolute value of the first potential is larger than an absolute value of the second potential. An absolute value of the third potential is larger than the absolute value of the first potential.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n a photosensitive member; a charging unit configured to charge the photosensitive member; an exposure unit configured to expose the photosensitive member to form an electrostatic latent image; a developing unit having a developing sleeve for carrying a developing agent, and configured to develop the electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member using the developing agent; a controller configured to:\n control the charging unit to charge the photosensitive member so that a surface potential of the photosensitive member is controlled to a first potential; \n control the exposure unit to expose the photosensitive member so that a potential of an exposure region on the photosensitive member is controlled to a second potential; \n control a surface potential of the developing sleeve to a third potential; and \n form a test image on the sheet by controlling the photosensitive member, the charging unit, the exposure unit, and the developing unit, \n wherein an absolute value of the first potential is larger than an absolute value of the second potential, and wherein an absolute value of the third potential is larger than the absolute value of the first potential.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.13953
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16049844', '15478450', '15892927', '13454397', '14704773']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7908922382447724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.524511966210642
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7642542110413594
- Mean Citation Score: 280.334244
- Max Citation Score: 360.2269
- Similarity Product: 321.0619777012587

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

Dataset: test