PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957714
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus of the present invention is provided with, between a commercial alternating power supply and a pressure roller, a conductive path which is different from a power supply path from the commercial alternating power supply to a heater, and with a capacitive element on the conductive path.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image bearing member; a transfer unit configured to form, together with the image bearing member, a transfer nip portion and to transfer a toner image formed on the image bearing member to a recording material at the transfer nip portion; and a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image on the recording material to the recording material at a fixing nip portion, the fixing unit including a fixing film, a heater configured to generate heat from electric power supplied from a commercial alternating power supply, and a pressure roller configured to form, together with the heater, the fixing nip portion via the fixing film, wherein the pressure roller is electrically grounded, and wherein a conductive path different from a power supply path from the commercial alternating power supply to the heater is provided between the commercial alternating power supply and the pressure roller, and a capacitive element is provided on the conductive path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6875
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12903735', '13289615', '11459488', '15384981', '13236692']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7798742336843923
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4646567278988798
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7483524831058411
- Mean Citation Score: 207.123282
- Max Citation Score: 215.3094
- Similarity Product: 191.56448107917308

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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