PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935327
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "068000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a roller; a heating member heating a sheet conveyed by the roller; a temperature sensor outputting a signal depending on a temperature of an end region of the heating member; and a controller. The controller selectively executes a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the roller conveys the first sheet, then conveys the second sheet at a first interval. In the second mode, the roller conveys the first sheet, then conveys the second sheet at a second interval which is longer than the first interval. When the controller has determined that a first time has elapsed after starting continuous printing in the first mode, and when the controller has determined that the temperature of the end region of the heating member is higher than a first temperature, the controller changes the mode from the first mode to the second mode.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein, when the controller has determined based on the signal from the temperature sensor that the temperature of the end region of the heating member is lower than a third temperature which is lower than the first temperature in executing the second mode, the controller is configured to change the mode of the roller from the second mode to the first mode in the continuous printing in which the second mode has been executed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14700800', '15280109', '14221487', '12477351', '11957532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8166223752963443
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798693087476675
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7829470686414767
- Mean Citation Score: 180.15407
- Max Citation Score: 190.50249
- Similarity Product: 128.9024515153706

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

Dataset: test