PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16175628
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "314000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus fixes a toner image on a transfer material at a fixing portion by applying an AC voltage from an AC power source to a fixing unit and includes a conductive pre-transfer guide on a position at which the transfer material nipped by a transfer portion and the fixing portion is in contact therewith. A capacitor and a Zener diode which is connected to the capacitor in parallel and maintains the pre-transfer guide at a predetermined voltage in a state in which a toner image is transferred to the transfer material nipped by the fixing portion and the transfer portion are arranged between the pre-transfer guide and the ground.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the constant voltage element is maintained at the predetermined voltage on the side connected to the conductive member by an electric current flowing from the transfer portion via the transfer material and the conductive member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23529
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14491020', '15829455', '15957714', '15628373', '15896997']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8300900723822007
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4846013650632648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7955412016503072
- Mean Citation Score: 232.70733
- Max Citation Score: 260.6713
- Similarity Product: 213.94909195907712

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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