PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a recording medium includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; a fixing unit that heats the recording medium bearing the unfixed toner image and fixes the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium at a nip portion; a heating member and a pressurizing member that touches the heating member and forms the nip portion therebetween; a first blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the heating member; and a second blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the pressurizing member. Upon the temperature of the non-sheet-passing area of the heating member exceeding a threshold temperature, the first blower blows without the second blower blowing, then the two blowers start blowing together.

Claim (Index 9):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 8 , further comprising:\n a heater provided in contact with an inner face of the film; wherein the heater and the pressurizing roller form the nip, with the film sandwiched therebetween.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15215101', '14221164', '13622597', '14260904', '15691273']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.842368424524259
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5575195095756788
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.813883533029401
- Mean Citation Score: 373.874176
- Max Citation Score: 478.37463
- Similarity Product: 380.0663877868634

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

Dataset: test