PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875856
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "046000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a first toner image forming unit for forming first toner image on a transfer belt with a first toner and a second toner image forming unit for forming a second toner image on the transfer belt with a second toner. A secondary transfer unit transfers the first and second toner images from the transfer belt to a sheet traveling in a sheet transport direction. A fixing unit fixes the first and second toner images to the sheet. A control unit controls the first toner image forming unit to form a first pattern, the second toner image forming unit to form a second pattern, and to leaving a margin on a downstream side of the sheet in the sheet transport direction that is greater than or equal to a circumferential distance of a fixing element in the fixing unit.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the fixing element rotates about an axis that is orthogonal to the sheet transport direction, and the first and second patterns are pressed on to the sheet by the fixing element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14551288', '15466038', '14341609', '13493059', '15233353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8260444757689005
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5036758224552897
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7938076104375394
- Mean Citation Score: 225.910406
- Max Citation Score: 245.64326
- Similarity Product: 140.279895598526

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