PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987124
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image fixing device having a nip; an air blower for feeding air for cooling a first area which is an end portion area, in a longitudinal direction of the fixing device, of the nip; a blocking member for changing a width of an opening through which the air flows; a first blow portion through which the air toward the opening; a second blow portion through which the air from the air blowing device toward a second area which is a region in a widthwise direction of the sheet passed through the nip flows; and a third blow portion through which the air from the air blower toward a third area which is closer to an end in the widthwise direction flows. The third blow portion is disposed at a position to take the air blocked by the blocking member.

Claim (Index 7):
An apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising acquiring means configured to acquire information of a temperature of said fixing member, wherein said blocking member changes the width in accordance with an output of said acquiring means.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.70175
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13622597', '13461133', '14227296', '15691273', '14260904']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.82073318438214
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5061257451577019
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7892724404596962
- Mean Citation Score: 267.93860800000004
- Max Citation Score: 306.74298
- Similarity Product: 206.28220847494129

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

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