PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16231408
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and an exhaust unit. The exhaust unit includes a first duct and a separating member. The first duct includes a first duct A forming member and a first duct B forming member provided with a plurality of communication ports which form one side surface of a second sheet transport path through which a sheet after heating and fixing is transported, a first exhaust fan for discharging air of the first duct to an outside of the apparatus body, and a filter disposed on a downstream side from the second sheet transport path. The first duct separates the second sheet transport path from spaces other than the first duct in the apparatus body. Further, the separating member separates the second sheet transport path from spaces other than the first duct in the image forming apparatus.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an apparatus body; a fixing unit that is provided in the apparatus body, and heats and fixes a toner image transferred to a recording medium; a transport path after fixing that transports the recording medium after heating and fixing by the fixing unit; a first duct that includes a transport path forming member which forms one side surface of the transport path after fixing, and is provided with at least one or more first intake ports, and that guides air in the transport path after fixing to an outside of the apparatus body; a first fan that is provided in the first duct, and discharges air the first duct to the outside of the apparatus body; a filter that is provided in the first duct, and is disposed on the downstream side from the first intake port; and a separating member that separates the transport path after fixing from a space other than the first duct in the apparatus body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54237
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12621126', '14854405', '10697280', '11298909', '13034888']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7755927439515579
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4672109792714087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.744754567483543
- Mean Citation Score: 198.72854
- Max Citation Score: 205.3705
- Similarity Product: 172.31794090127948

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

Dataset: test