PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041012
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "045000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion for forming a toner image on a sheet; a fixing portion for heating and fixing the toner on the sheet; and a controller for controlling the apparatus which is operable to form an image on the sheet having a first size and the sheet having a second size smaller than the first size. When a print instruction on the sheet of the first size during a period in which a print is formed on the sheet of the second size at a first throughput, the controller controls the apparatus so as to print on the sheet of the second size at a second throughput which is lower than the first throughput.

Claim (Index 7):
An apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein said fixing portion includes a heater and first and second rotatable members configured to nip and feed the recording material, wherein the process includes rotating said first and second rotatable members while heat generation of said heater is stopped or suppressed as compared with that during a normal fixing process operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71739
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13622597', '14713574', '11530490', '11749527', '14463957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8366469504384485
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856348550613656
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8015457409007402
- Mean Citation Score: 206.494716
- Max Citation Score: 213.76056
- Similarity Product: 144.5889053986359

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

Dataset: test