PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16033674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a fixing device, an image forming path, a circulation path and a hardware processor. Along the image forming path, paper is conveyed to the image former and the fixing device. The circulation path (i) diverges from the image forming path on a downstream side of the fixing device in a paper conveying direction and (ii) meets the image forming path on an upstream side of the image former in the paper conveying direction so as to circulate the paper such that an image forming side of the paper is unchanged. The hardware processor performs paper heating control to (i) make the paper pass through the fixing device without image forming on the paper, thereby heating the paper, and (ii) re-convey the paper via the circulation path to the image former.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein the hardware processor performs the paper heating control if the type of the paper is long paper or, thick paper.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83636
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13462143', '12508844', '12897143', '11531034', '13129140']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.792945006098247
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5066293695507794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7643134424435003
- Mean Citation Score: 203.509522
- Max Citation Score: 209.94472
- Similarity Product: 116.7438790974617

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

Dataset: test