PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a recording medium includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; a fixing unit that heats the recording medium bearing the unfixed toner image and fixes the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium at a nip portion; a heating member and a pressurizing member that touches the heating member and forms the nip portion therebetween; a first blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the heating member; and a second blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the pressurizing member. Upon the temperature of the non-sheet-passing area of the heating member exceeding a threshold temperature, the first blower blows without the second blower blowing, then the two blowers start blowing together.

Claim (Index 16):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 14 ,\n wherein the holes provided in the area of the duct facing the end portions in the direction orthogonal to the recording medium conveyance direction of the one are provided in a wide range in the recording medium conveyance direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15215101', '14221164', '13622597', '14260904', '15691273']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.861746196645849
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5402328216296487
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.829594859144229
- Mean Citation Score: 373.874176
- Max Citation Score: 478.37463
- Similarity Product: 265.820380545516

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

Dataset: test