PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989538
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "017000"]

Abstract:
An intermediate transfer body is efficiently heated, and thus, transfer properties of an image and durability of the intermediate transfer body are ensured. A heating unit heats the intermediate transfer body by using a plurality of heating sources which are positioned by being shifted in a rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body. The plurality of heating sources includes a first heating source and a second heating source, a degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the second heating source being higher than a degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the first heating source. The second heating source is positioned on an upstream side in the rotation direction from the first heating source.

Claim (Index 12):
An image forming method, comprising:\n a step of supplying an ink onto a surface of an intermediate transfer body which rotates in a predetermined direction; a heating step of heating the surface of the intermediate transfer body onto which the ink is supplied; and a transfer step of transferring the ink on the surface of the intermediate transfer body to a printing medium, wherein in the heating step, the intermediate transfer body is heated by a plurality of heating sources including a first heating source and a second heating source which are positioned by being shifted in the predetermined direction, and the second heating source heats the intermediate transfer body with a degree of heating higher than a degree of heating by the first heating source with which the intermediate transfer body is heated, the second heating source being positioned on an upstream side in the rotation direction from the first heating source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61702
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12236887', '10665154', '12205391', '15906156', '11755347']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7391925108619112
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790733915921683
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7131805989349369
- Mean Citation Score: 185.260562
- Max Citation Score: 207.49973
- Similarity Product: 155.26163745175418

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

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