PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a discharging device for discharging the drum at a discharging portion opposing the surface of the drum; and a control unit for executing, during non-image formation, a cleaning operation for transferring the toner deposited on the transfer member onto the drum by applying a voltage from transfer voltage source to the transfer member. The control unit does not effect discharge by the discharging device for at least a region of the drum where a transfer voltage for transferring a normal-polarity toner of the toner deposited on the transfer member onto the drum is applied to the transfer member in the cleaning operation, and then passes the region of the drum through the charging portion in a state in which a voltage larger than a surface potential of the drum in a normal polarity side is applied to the charging member.

Claim (Index 13):
An image forming apparatus according to  claim 11 , wherein the cleaning operation is performed in a post-rotation step executed after an image forming step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32308
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15285592', '14849789', '11758954', '12887574', '15260619']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8602460933689293
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5291413381562952
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8271356178476659
- Mean Citation Score: 330.2726600000001
- Max Citation Score: 384.26917
- Similarity Product: 268.01947398424085

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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