PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16228202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing device, and a control circuit. The control circuit acquires a selection signal indicating which mode is selected from among options. The options include at least two modes, including a first mode in which an image is formed using a non-decolorable first toner, a second mode in which the image is formed using a decolorable second toner, and a third mode in which the image is erased by heating a sheet on which the image is formed by the second toner using the fixing device at a decolorizing temperature. The control circuit sets a different standby temperature in accordance with the mode indicated by the selection signal, and controls a temperature of the fixing device to be the standby temperature, in a standby state before an operation start reception.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 7 , wherein\n when a reference temperature\n is set to be the first fixing reference temperature when the first mode is selected, or \n is set to be the second fixing reference temperature when the second mode is selected, \n the control circuit is configured to set the standby temperature to be a temperature between the reference temperature before a change of mode and the reference temperature after the change of mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15995352', '16021097', '15678395', '14718380', '14551288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8247812814327089
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4863469874360213
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7909378520330402
- Mean Citation Score: 208.151438
- Max Citation Score: 229.78696
- Similarity Product: 161.87179668982984

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