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 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the thermal characteristic information is classified into at least two types based on a degree of fixing performance of the toner to the recording material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9322
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14810153', '10668246', '13236298', '11318195', '12929556']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.823883749888978
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4697140896794779
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.788466783868028
- Mean Citation Score: 199.26042
- Max Citation Score: 203.95451
- Similarity Product: 158.8807789000982

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