PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "053000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a calculation portion calculates an image ratio of the electrostatic image to be formed. A controller controls the developer supply from a developer supplier to the developing unit based on the toner density output of the inductance sensor. An adjustment portion adjusts the density of the toner output from the toner density detection portion to a higher value in a case where the image ratio calculated by the calculation portion is higher than a predetermined image ratio.

Claim (Index 9):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is to be formed; a developing unit comprising a developer bearing member configured to carry and convey developer comprising toner and carrier to develop the electrostatic image, the developing unit being configured to accommodate the developer; an inductance sensor configured to output a voltage value corresponding to a density of the toner in the developer in the developing unit; a developer supplying portion configured to supply the developer to the developing unit; a controller configured to control the developer supplied from the developer supplying portion to the developing unit on a basis of the density of the toner output from the inductance sensor; and a voltage controller configured to control an absolute value of an adjusting voltage value to a second voltage value smaller than a first voltage value in a case where images of a second image ratio larger than a first image ratio are successively formed, wherein the adjusting voltage value is a voltage value for adjusting a magnitude of a magnetic field of the inductance sensor, and wherein the first voltage value is the absolute value of the adjusting voltage value in a case where images of the first image ratio are successively formed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80851
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15643846', '15642169', '15642727', '15056050', '14459614']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8106170333945142
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5245319126068321
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7820085213157459
- Mean Citation Score: 328.606668
- Max Citation Score: 361.0501
- Similarity Product: 294.64749942499986

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