PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit which forms a first image on a first recording medium with a first material that is not thermally decolorizable; a second image forming unit which forms a second image on a second recording medium with a second material that is thermally decolorizable; a fixing device which is on a common carrying path shared by the first recording medium and the second recording medium and fixes the first image to the first recording medium; and a controller which controls the fixing device so that a temperature of the fixing device is lower than a decolorizing temperature of the second material when the second recording medium reaches the fixing device.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 15 , wherein fixing the first image to the first recording medium while the first recording medium passes through the fixing unit comprises heating and pressurizing the first recording medium with a heat roller and a press roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13627640', '14581744', '12704832', '13099265', '15092750']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8382196441356309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5356534815916842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8079630278812363
- Mean Citation Score: 363.735364
- Max Citation Score: 386.35214
- Similarity Product: 325.78767940159804

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