PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a pressing unit and a heating unit that opposes the pressing unit; and plural guide portions disposed downstream of the fixing device and arranged in a direction crossing a transporting direction of a recording medium. An amount of projection of the guide portions is smaller in a region near a center of the fixing device than in a region near an end of the fixing device.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein a height of the guide portions decreases with increasing distance in a direction from the end toward the center.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90244
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15158391', '13338765', '12560796', '13752977', '13153003']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.804063966525461
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4667613400797457
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7703337038808894
- Mean Citation Score: 134.51527000000002
- Max Citation Score: 138.81912
- Similarity Product: 94.48686110359668

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