PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
There is demand to reduce the amount of developing agent fed to a cleaning member. The amount of developing agent that is fed to the cleaning member is decided based on the amount of developing agent recovered by the cleaning member or the amount of use of a process cartridge.

Claim (Index 7):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a process cartridge including:\n an image bearing member, \n a cleaning member configured to come into contact with the image bearing member and clean the image bearing member, and \n a developing agent bearing member configured to convey developing agent to the image bearing member; \n a toner cartridge configured to supply developing agent to the developing agent bearing member; and a control unit configured to execute a supply process of developing agent supplied from the developing agent bearing member to the cleaning member via the image bearing member during a non-image-forming period, wherein the process cartridge is detachably mounted to an apparatus main body of the image forming apparatus, and wherein, based on a value relating to an amount of developing agent recovered by the cleaning member and a value relating to a usage amount of the toner cartridge, the control unit decides a supply amount of the developing agent supplied from the developing agent bearing member to the cleaning member in the supplying process of the developing agent.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10532979', '11043654', '14086483', '10743406', '12973181']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.815404706095215
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4803402214056846
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.781898257626262
- Mean Citation Score: 234.61992200000003
- Max Citation Score: 240.26254
- Similarity Product: 183.89272168066745

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

Dataset: test