PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16287695
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a device for forming a trace of a image fixing nip, primary transfer nip, secondary transfer nip or developing nip is formed, a detecting device for detecting a width of the nip from the trace of the nip, and a controller for controlling fixing, transferring, developing or image forming parameter in accordance with the nip width detected by the detecting device. Proper image forming conditions are provided against the change of the nip width.

Claim (Index 9):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming portion configured to form an unfixed toner image and a recording material, said image forming portion including a rotatable image bearing member, an exposure means configured to form a latent image on said image bearing member, a developing member cooperating with said image bearing member to form a development nip in which the latent image is developed with toner, a first transfer member, a rotatable feeding member cooperating with said image bearing member to form a first transfer nip and configured to feed the recording material carrying the toner image transferred from said image bearing member by said first transfer member, and a second transfer member cooperating with said feeding member to form a second transfer nip and configured to meet and feed the recording material and said feeding member to transfer the toner image from said feeding member onto the recording material; a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image on the recording material; an image reader; and a controller configured to set an image forming condition of said image forming portion, wherein said image forming apparatus forms a latent image for measuring a width of the development nip on said image bearing member by said exposure means, wherein during developing the latent image with the toner by said developing member, rotation of said image bearing member is stopped for a predetermined period of time, and developing operation of the latent image by said developing member is stopped, and then the developing operation of the latent image is carried out to form a trace of the development nip on said image bearing member, and transfers the nip trace toner image from said image bearing member onto the feeding member by said first transfer member, wherein said image reader reads a width of the nip trace toner image in a peripheral movement direction of said feeding member, and wherein said controller changes the image forming condition in accordance with a result of reading of the width by said image reader.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12195
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13448694', '12827100', '14526851', '12861255', '12903735']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8042766660435282
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5149521329858493
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7753442127377603
- Mean Citation Score: 300.08321
- Max Citation Score: 333.54605
- Similarity Product: 272.0904496934026

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

Dataset: test