PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112798
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "330000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member; a charging unit; an electrostatic image forming unit; a developing unit; a transfer unit; and a fixing unit that fixes the toner image on the recording medium. The toner has an amorphous polyester resin and has a weight-average molecular weight Mw in a range of 25,000 to 60,000, a ratio Mw/Mn is within a range of 5 to 10, a ratio of an absorbance at a wavenumber of 1500 cm −1  to an absorbance at a wavenumber of 720 cm −1  is 0.6 or less, and a ratio of an absorbance at a wavenumber of 820 cm −1  to the absorbance at a wavenumber of 720 cm −1  is 0.4 or less. The fixing unit includes a heat roll having an elastic component, an endless belt and a pressure pad that is disposed on an inner side of the endless belt.

Claim (Index 10):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the pressure pad forms a belt nip between the endless belt and the heat roll so that the recording medium is allowed to pass through the belt nip, and locally elastically deform an outlet side of the recording medium in the heat roll.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28169
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16109793', '15915843', '15943268', '11956378', '13752847']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8146350209604452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5141315818004184
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7845846770444426
- Mean Citation Score: 251.88394
- Max Citation Score: 273.22458
- Similarity Product: 157.1059542137611

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