PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a pressing unit and a heating unit that opposes the pressing unit; and plural guide portions disposed downstream of the fixing device and arranged in a direction crossing a transporting direction of a recording medium. An amount of projection of the guide portions is smaller in a region near a center of the fixing device than in a region near an end of the fixing device.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein the difference in the amount of projection between the region near the end and the region near the center decreases with increasing distance from the upstream region toward the downstream region of the guide portions in the transporting direction of the recording medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90244
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15158391', '13338765', '12560796', '13752977', '13153003']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8043766842184047
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4649327143841207
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7704322872349764
- Mean Citation Score: 134.51527000000002
- Max Citation Score: 138.81912
- Similarity Product: 95.895231910429

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

Dataset: test