PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875450
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "066000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a developing section, a transfer section, and a fixing section. The developing section attaches a metal-containing toner to a latent image, and attaches a non-metal-containing toner to the latent image. The transfer section transfers, onto an intermediate transfer medium, the metal-containing toner and transfers, onto a print medium, the metal-containing toner. The transfer section transfers, onto the intermediate transfer medium, the non-metal-containing toner and transfers, onto the print medium, the non-metal-containing toner. The fixing section fixes, to the print medium, the metal-containing toner, and fixes, to the print medium, the non-metal-containing toner. The fixing section causes a temperature at which the metal-containing toner is fixed to the print medium to be lower than a temperature at which the non-metal-containing toner is fixed to the print medium.

Claim (Index 5):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a developing section that attaches a toner to a latent image; a transfer section that transfers, onto an intermediate transfer medium, the toner attached to the latent image, and transfers, onto a print medium, the toner transferred onto the intermediate transfer medium; and a fixing section that includes a heating member and a pressure applying member, and fixes, to the print medium, the toner transferred onto the print medium, the heating member being disposed on side of the intermediate transfer medium on which the print medium comes into contact with the intermediate transfer medium and heating the print medium onto which the toner has been transferred, the pressure applying member facing the heating member and applying a pressure onto the print medium onto which the toner has been transferred, wherein a difference \u0394T between a temperature of the pressure applying member and a glass-transition temperature of the toner defined as the temperature of the pressure applying member minus the glass transition temperature of the toner satisfies the following conditional expression, when the fixing section fixes the toner to the print medium.\n 68\u00b0 C.\u2264\u0394 T\u2264 101\u00b0 C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.13514
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11723364', '11730655', '11798106', '10662939', '11304657']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8288522349829198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4871333568489383
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7946803471695216
- Mean Citation Score: 281.416292
- Max Citation Score: 286.28445
- Similarity Product: 250.62004731892344

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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