PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16204707
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "062000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a developer casing that accommodates a developer; an developer detector that is disposed in the developer casing, and that detects, based on magnetic force, the developer from a plurality of detection ranges that is close to each other and is disposed side by side in a vertical direction in the developer casing; and a hardware processor that performs control of detecting a liquid level position of the developer in the developer casing, based on a detection result detected by the developer detector.

Claim (Index 13):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 12 ,\n wherein the hardware processor: increases an input voltage of the developer detector, in a case where the output value corresponding to the detection range at the bottom position is a predetermined threshold or less; determines, in a case where the output value of the developer detector has increased in accordance with the increase in the input voltage, the excessive state of the toner concentration and performs control of recovering the toner concentration; and determines, in a case where the output value of the developer detector has not increased in accordance with the increase in the input voltage, the insufficient state of the amount of the developer and performs control of replenishing the toner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93878
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15695265', '15908293', '11408081', '12379568', '11761731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8245054126150213
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4876437181057771
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7908192431640969
- Mean Citation Score: 206.74942600000003
- Max Citation Score: 219.27364
- Similarity Product: 146.71043494131564

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

Dataset: test