PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16138770
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "045000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet transport path, a toner image transfer section along the sheet transport path at which a toner image is transferred to a sheet conveyed along the sheet transport path, a heating unit downstream from the toner image transfer section in a sheet transporting direction, the heating unit having a plurality of heating members arranged along a sheet width direction, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine locations of end portions of a label on the sheet in the sheet width direction, and during heating of the sheet by the heating unit, control heating members at locations facing the end portions of the label to generate less heat than the one or more of the other heating members.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the selected pair of the groups of heating members are arranged at locations of end portions of a label on the sheet in a sheet width direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41071
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15877564', '12585231', '15980283', '15624568', '15250552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7817021877698762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4957382052851699
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7531057895214056
- Mean Citation Score: 176.28897999999995
- Max Citation Score: 251.553
- Similarity Product: 188.88274379986527

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

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