PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953941
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "043000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing device that forms a fixing nip by bringing a pressure member into pressure contact with a peripheral surface of a heating rotator and fixes an unfixed toner image; an acceptor that accepts a specified laminate processing mode for performing laminate processing by feeding a laminate; and a hardware processor that controls a heating rotator to idle for a predetermined time and then controls to perform the laminate processing, wherein a heat accumulating member provided to be capable of contacting with and separating from an outer peripheral surface of the pressure member and a pressure contact/separation mechanism are further included, and the hardware processor performs control to idle the heating rotator for a predetermined time in a state where the heat accumulating member is brought into pressure contact with the pressure member to accumulate heat in the heat accumulating member.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a fixing device that forms a fixing nip by bringing a pressure member having a release layer and an elastic layer on a surface into pressure contact with a peripheral surface of a heating rotator and fixes an unfixed toner image by feeding a recording medium having the unfixed toner image through the fixing nip; an acceptor that accepts a specified laminate processing mode for performing laminate processing by feeding a laminate in which laminate films are laminated on both surfaces of the recording medium through the fixing nip; and a hardware processor that controls a heating rotator to idle for a predetermined time without feeding a sheet while the fixing nip is formed when the laminate processing mode is accepted, and then, controls to perform the laminate processing, wherein a heat accumulating member provided to be capable of contacting with and separating from an outer peripheral surface of the pressure member and a pressure contact/separation mechanism which makes the heat accumulating member have contact with or be separated from the pressure member are further included, and when accepting the laminate processing mode, the hardware processor performs control to idle the heating rotator for a predetermined time in a state where the heat accumulating member is brought into pressure contact with the pressure member by the pressure contact/separation mechanism to accumulate heat in the heat accumulating member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05405
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14629882', '13585363', '13064137', '10463528', '13119025']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7722740857516182
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875939890054478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7438060760770012
- Mean Citation Score: 198.729588
- Max Citation Score: 200.61618
- Similarity Product: 134.7580256080842

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

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