PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907591
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "033000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus that prints an image on a recording material. The image forming apparatus includes: a fixing unit that fixes an image formed on a recording material onto the recording material; a temperature sensor that detects temperature of a rotating member of the fixing unit; a wearing amount acquisition portion that acquires a wearing amount of a surface layer of the rotating member corresponding to the detected temperature; and a control temperature setting portion that sets control temperature of a heater according to the wearing amount.

Claim (Index 14):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 13 , wherein\n the hardness change amount acquisition portion acquires the hardness change amount per unit time, and the hardness change amount per unit time is different depending on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14833445', '12926044', '14669517', '13484850', '15384981']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8296487168577615
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5078700088422112
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7974708460562066
- Mean Citation Score: 249.614442
- Max Citation Score: 258.9431
- Similarity Product: 154.1836210075677

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