PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157526
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing apparatus including a heating member that is heated by a heater and a pressure member that forms a fixing nip between the pressure member and the heating member by pressing the heating member; and a supplier that, when toner images of a plurality of images including non-image regions overlapping each other are consecutively fixed by the fixing apparatus, supplies a cleaning sheet on which a cleaning image is formed on one surface, to the fixing nip in a state where the one surface faces the pressure member, wherein the non-image regions are regions extending along the conveyance direction from an upstream side end in the conveyance direction in an image to a downstream side end in the conveyance direction, and not including a toner image having a length of equal to or more than a first value in the conveyance direction.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein a length of the cleaning sheet in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction is a maximum length in which a sheet can be conveyed to the fixing apparatus, and\n the toner image included in the cleaning image is formed on an entire surface of an image forming region of the cleaning sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13699
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11957532', '12751213', '13588961', '12418196', '15964943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8354984182181074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872851485850256
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8006770912547994
- Mean Citation Score: 246.88166
- Max Citation Score: 257.20392000000004
- Similarity Product: 198.7111635070896

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test