PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit which forms a first image on a first recording medium with a first material that is not thermally decolorizable; a second image forming unit which forms a second image on a second recording medium with a second material that is thermally decolorizable; a fixing device which is on a common carrying path shared by the first recording medium and the second recording medium and fixes the first image to the first recording medium; and a controller which controls the fixing device so that a temperature of the fixing device is lower than a decolorizing temperature of the second material when the second recording medium reaches the fixing device.

Claim (Index 11):
The image forming apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein the fixing unit is configured to fix the second image formed on the second recording medium by heating and pressurizing the second recording medium with the heat roller and the press roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13627640', '14581744', '12704832', '13099265', '15092750']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8374345628128448
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5368505315407611
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8073761596856365
- Mean Citation Score: 363.735364
- Max Citation Score: 386.35214
- Similarity Product: 367.2304538689148

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