PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976102
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "297000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus for forming an image by arranging powder on a surface of a resin image formed of a recording medium and a thermoplastic resin layer arranged thereon, includes: a powder supplying device that supplies the powder to the surface of the layer of the resin image; a hardware processor that sets a rubbing condition of the resin image in accordance with an image to be formed; and a rubbing device that rubs the resin image temperature of which is adjusted to temperature at which the layer is softened or higher to which the powder is supplied from the layer side according to the set rubbing condition.

Claim (Index 12):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising: a powder recovery device that recovers the powder supplied to the surface of the layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03571
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11165423', '13404276', '11750777', '10607172', '10409447']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7516047486033764
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4877262139102199
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7252168951340608
- Mean Citation Score: 141.36571400000005
- Max Citation Score: 148.3237
- Similarity Product: 89.01731565746068

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

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