PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892065
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "044000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device configured to fix a toner to a recording medium, a cooling device disposed so as to cool the fixing device with forced air, and a rotatable guide configured to guide the recording medium towards a first location when in a first position and towards a second location when in a second position. The rotatable guide partially blocks the forced air at the first position and forms a pathway for the forced air when at the second position. A control unit rotates the guide unit to the second position if an operating mode of the fixing device is changed from a first mode having a fixing temperature set point at a first temperature to a second mode having a fixing set point temperature lower than the first temperature.

Claim (Index 12):
The apparatus according to  claim 11 , wherein\n the guide unit includes an airflow direction changing surface that changes a direction of the forced air from the cooling device, the airflow direction changing surface guides the forced air towards a nip portion of the fixing device when the guide unit is at the second position, and the airflow direction changing surface at least partially blocks the forced air between the cooling device and the nip portion when the guide unit is at the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13493059', '15875856', '14551288', '15678395', '14341609']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.825917924100836
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4835503022682855
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7916811619175809
- Mean Citation Score: 208.08196200000003
- Max Citation Score: 210.70146
- Similarity Product: 144.18682809420704

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