PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15898152
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
After primary transfer, in a state where a pressing force of a primary transfer brush is released to separate an intermediate transfer belt from a photosensitive drum, current is impeded to the primary transfer brush. After that, the total current supplied from a secondary transfer roller and a conductive brush is set as a total current whose value is smaller than that of the total current supplied during the primary transfer.

Claim (Index 9):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image carrying member that carries a toner image; an exposure unit that exposes the image carrying member; an intermediate transfer belt which has conductivity and an endless shape, and is movable, and onto which the toner image from the image carrying member is primary-transferred; an abutting member that abuts against an inner peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt; and a current supply unit that has a plurality of contact members contacting an outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt and supplies current to the intermediate transfer belt, the current supply unit supplying a first total current, so that the toner image is primary-transferred from the image carrying member onto the intermediate transfer belt, wherein after the toner image is primary-transferred from the image carrying member onto the intermediate transfer belt, in a state where a surface of the image carrying member is uniformly exposed by the exposure unit, so that a potential difference between the image carrying member and the intermediate transfer belt is set to be equal to or less than a potential difference obtained when the toner image is primary-transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt and where a second total current whose value is smaller than a value of the first total current is supplied from the current supply unit, the toner image that is primary-transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt is secondary-transferred onto a transfer material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15838846', '13828748', '14798018', '15660794', '14031540']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8045796712472312
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4997441519858744
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7740961193210956
- Mean Citation Score: 295.700752
- Max Citation Score: 303.37466
- Similarity Product: 272.4348935631967

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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