PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "033000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form an image on a recording material; a fixing portion including a cylindrical heat transfer member and a heating member contacting an inner surface of the heat transfer member and configured to fix the image on the recording material by heating the image-formed recording material by heat from the heating member through the heat transfer member; and a control unit configured to control a target temperature of the heating member. The control unit analyzes whether or not a plurality of pixels, of image data corresponding to the image to be formed on the recording material, in each interval corresponding to a circumferential length of the heat transfer member with respect to a recording material feeding direction are pixels for forming an image with a predetermined density or more, and sets the target temperature depending on an analyzation result.

Claim (Index 10):
An image forming apparatus according to  claim 7 , wherein said control unit increases the target temperature with an increasing number of repetitions of a pixel repeated with respect to the recording material feeding direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10646865', '14092734', '14819926', '15701831', '15090993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7986944520178122
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4933066602150243
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7681556728375334
- Mean Citation Score: 208.24307600000003
- Max Citation Score: 218.55725
- Similarity Product: 148.15470042018592

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

Dataset: test