PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964943
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "071000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance section, an image forming section, a fixing section, a sheet output tray, a toner container, a suitable product determining section, and a control section. The suitable product determining section determines whether the toner container loaded in an apparatus body is a suitable product. When the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container is not a suitable product, the control section allows the conveyance section, the image forming section, and the fixing section to form, on a sheet, a solid image having a circumferential length of one of rotating bodies of the fixing section or longer, and allows the sheet on which the solid image is formed to pass through a fixing nip, to thereby periodically allow a cleaning operation of removing a contamination adhering to surfaces of rotating bodies of the fixing section to be performed.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the conveyance section is configured to perform double-sided printing of the sheet, during the cleaning operation, the control section passes the sheet through the fixing nip, then reverses the sheet, then passes the sheet through the fixing nip again, and the predetermined length is set to be equal to or longer than a circumferential length of one rotating body having a longer circumferential length out of the two rotating bodies.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55556
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15965089', '11957532', '14798831', '13075916', '15817825']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8278818405618908
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5109308260947518
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.796186739115177
- Mean Citation Score: 238.27152200000003
- Max Citation Score: 327.43494
- Similarity Product: 250.0204569424581

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