PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907591
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "033000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus that prints an image on a recording material. The image forming apparatus includes: a fixing unit that fixes an image formed on a recording material onto the recording material; a temperature sensor that detects temperature of a rotating member of the fixing unit; a wearing amount acquisition portion that acquires a wearing amount of a surface layer of the rotating member corresponding to the detected temperature; and a control temperature setting portion that sets control temperature of a heater according to the wearing amount.

Claim (Index 13):
An image forming apparatus that prints an image on a recording material, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n a fixing unit that fixes an image formed on a recording material onto the recording material, the fixing unit having a rotating member, a pressing member that forms a fixing nip portion to sandwich and transport the recording material with the rotating member, and a heater that heats the rotating member; a temperature sensor that detects temperature of the pressing member; a hardness change amount acquisition portion that acquires a hardness change amount of the pressing member, the hardness change amount acquisition portion acquiring the hardness change amount corresponding to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor; and a control temperature setting portion that sets control temperature of the heater according to the hardness change amount.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14833445', '12926044', '14669517', '13484850', '15384981']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8143431301297911
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4888471599293577
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7817935331097478
- Mean Citation Score: 249.614442
- Max Citation Score: 258.9431
- Similarity Product: 203.5364106629729

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