PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873088
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["347", "102000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.

Claim (Index 26):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming unit to form an image on a medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium, wherein the media heater includes a plurality of contact heat members, each heating the medium by contacting the medium with a corresponding contact surface having a corresponding predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, wherein the contact heat members include:\n a first contact heat member; and \n at least two second contact heat members, each configured to contact the medium at an upstream side of the first contact heat member relative to a media conveyance direction, \n wherein for each second contact heat member amongst the second contact heat members, the contact surface of the second contact heat member has a greater curvature than the contact surface of the first contact heat member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21569
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15449557', '14871301', '15462449', '15641634', '15462183']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7118323904308068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4924949431118168
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6898986456989078
- Mean Citation Score: 218.80245
- Max Citation Score: 275.0512
- Similarity Product: 257.5210718109131

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

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