PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140659
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "346000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a developer carrying member configured to contact with the image bearing member and to be separated from the image bearing member; a control unit for controlling the image bearing member and the developer carrying member; and a contact member disposed in contact with the image bearing member. The control unit is configured to sequentially execute: (1) rotating the image bearing member at a first speed in a separated state; (2) switching the image bearing member and the developer carrying member from the separated state to a contact state in a state in which the image bearing member rotates at the first speed; and (3) rotating the image bearing member by decreasing a rotation speed of the image bearing member from the first speed to a second speed smaller than the first speed in the contact state.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the second speed is a speed set for supplying the developer carried by the developer carrying member to the image bearing member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.01887
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15260619', '15888202', '10648285', '15077054', '14956761']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8409842821388941
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4984951944004113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8067353733650459
- Mean Citation Score: 270.841746
- Max Citation Score: 276.73495
- Similarity Product: 194.4485578079343

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