PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157526
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing apparatus including a heating member that is heated by a heater and a pressure member that forms a fixing nip between the pressure member and the heating member by pressing the heating member; and a supplier that, when toner images of a plurality of images including non-image regions overlapping each other are consecutively fixed by the fixing apparatus, supplies a cleaning sheet on which a cleaning image is formed on one surface, to the fixing nip in a state where the one surface faces the pressure member, wherein the non-image regions are regions extending along the conveyance direction from an upstream side end in the conveyance direction in an image to a downstream side end in the conveyance direction, and not including a toner image having a length of equal to or more than a first value in the conveyance direction.

Claim (Index 12):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein, when a toner image of an image not including the non-image regions overlapping each other is fixed by the fixing apparatus, the supplier does not supply the cleaning sheet to the fixing nip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13699
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11957532', '12751213', '13588961', '12418196', '15964943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8342016981131792
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4982551444620716
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8006070427480685
- Mean Citation Score: 246.88166
- Max Citation Score: 257.20392000000004
- Similarity Product: 167.0421447065735

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

Dataset: test