PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16117711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "048000"]

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a control unit performs a control to cause an exposing unit to expose a plurality of image bearing members at different times to form exposure regions on a plurality of image bearing members, to acquire results acquired by applying direct current voltage lower than discharge start voltage to a plurality of abutting members by an applying unit when the exposure region pass by the abutting parts against the abutting members and detected by a detecting unit, and to, based on the acquired results of the detections, acquire information regarding the surface potentials of the a plurality of image bearing members.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the control unit in the control causes the surfaces of the plurality of image bearing members to be charged by discharging and then forms the exposure regions having absolute values equal to or less than a predetermined value of surface potentials of the plurality of image bearing members.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05556
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14060991', '14085200', '14690181', '15281397', '13866778']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7961324453740178
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4809242950252043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7646116303391365
- Mean Citation Score: 205.405972
- Max Citation Score: 210.69041
- Similarity Product: 160.76560104634643

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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