PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989520
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
Each of a plurality of cartridges configured to contain toner and to be detachably attached to an apparatus main body  2  includes a storage element that stores a type of thermal characteristic information on the toner which is classified into at least two types and which is contained in each of the cartridges. The image forming apparatus has a reading portion configured to read the type of the thermal characteristic information stored in the storage element, and a control portion switches a thermal fixing condition to control the fixing portion in accordance with a combination of the types of the thermal characteristic information that has been read by the reading portion.

Claim (Index 8):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising\n a recording material discriminating portion configured to acquire information on the type of the recording material onto which the toner image is thermally fixed, wherein the control portion switches the thermal fixing condition, based on (i) the type of the recording material acquired by the recording material discriminating portion, and (ii) the combination of the types of the thermal characteristic information read by the reading portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9322
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14810153', '10668246', '13236298', '11318195', '12929556']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8050345370581146
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4733617611962992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.771867259471933
- Mean Citation Score: 199.26042
- Max Citation Score: 203.95451
- Similarity Product: 149.56911170556842

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

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