PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "043000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming station, a mounting portion for mounting one of fixing devices, each including a first roller and a second roller which cooperate to form a nip for fixing a toner image on a sheet fed from the image forming station, a rubbing roller configured to rub a surface of the first roller, a storing portion capable of storing information, a counter for counting sheets fed to the fixing device mounted on the mounting portion and to store a number indicative of the number counted by the counter in the storing portion of the fixing device, and an executing portion for effecting a rubbing treatment to the first roller of the fixing device, when the number counted by the counter on the basis of the number in the storing portion of the fixing device mounted on the mounting portion exceeds a predetermined number.

Claim (Index 12):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming station configured to form a unfixed toner image on a recording material; a mounting portion configured to mount one of fixing devices each including a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member which cooperate with each other to form a nip for fixing the unfixed toner image on the recording material fed from said image forming station, a discrimination portion indicative of identifying information for discriminating said fixing device from another fixing device mountable on said mounting portion in place of said fixing device mounted on said mounting portion, a rubbing rotatable member configured to rub a surface of said first rotatable member, a fixing device storing portion capable of storing information; a counter configured to count the recording materials fed to said fixing portion mounted on said mounting portion; a main assembly storing portion capable of storing information; a writing portion configured to write the number information indicative of the number counted by said counter in said main assembly storing portion in correlation with the identifying information and to write the number information in said fixing device storing portion; and an executing portion configured to execute a rubbing treatment of a rubbing rotatable member to said first rotatable member of the fixing device mounted on said mounting portion, when the number counted by said counter on the basis of the information acquired from said fixing storing portion and said main assembly storing portion exceeds a predetermined number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15218181', '15227431', '16021684', '15196404', '15048208']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8256408015905203
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5514264615229566
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.798219367583764
- Mean Citation Score: 333.001754
- Max Citation Score: 437.35657
- Similarity Product: 394.4408867052156

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