PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965089
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "046000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance section, an image forming section, a fixing section, a sheet output tray, a toner container, a suitable product determining section, and a control section. The suitable product determining section determines whether the toner container loaded in an apparatus body is a suitable product. When the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container is not a suitable product, on condition of successive feeding of sheets, the control section allows, after every predetermined number of sheets have been subjected to an image forming operation, a fixing aging operation for stopping the image forming operation and rotating rotating bodies of the fixing section to be performed. When the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container is a suitable product, the control section keeps the fixing aging operation conditional on successive feeding of sheets from being performed.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein:\n the control section checks, by pattern matching, original image data as reference for the check sheet against the image data of the check sheet acquired by the reading of the document reading section; when a difference obtained by the check is within a predetermined range, the control section determines that the surface conditions of the rotating bodies of the fixing section are good; and when the difference is out of the predetermined range, the control section determines that the surface conditions are poor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15964943', '15899693', '11711281', '11679524', '11810994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8157535236731518
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5142744362650499
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7856056149323416
- Mean Citation Score: 207.253732
- Max Citation Score: 306.17188
- Similarity Product: 176.88728988329888

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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