PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16228202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing device, and a control circuit. The control circuit acquires a selection signal indicating which mode is selected from among options. The options include at least two modes, including a first mode in which an image is formed using a non-decolorable first toner, a second mode in which the image is formed using a decolorable second toner, and a third mode in which the image is erased by heating a sheet on which the image is formed by the second toner using the fixing device at a decolorizing temperature. The control circuit sets a different standby temperature in accordance with the mode indicated by the selection signal, and controls a temperature of the fixing device to be the standby temperature, in a standby state before an operation start reception.

Claim (Index 7):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming unit configured to perform image forming on a surface of a sheet by using a non-decolorable first toner or a decolorable second toner; a fixing device configured to heat and fix an image, by the first toner, which image is formed on the surface of the sheet at a first fixing reference temperature, or to heat and fix an image, by the second toner, which image is formed on the surface of the sheet, at a second fixing reference temperature different from the first fixing reference temperature; and a control circuit configured to, before a start of the image forming,\n acquire a selection signal indicating which mode is selected from a first mode in which the image is formed using the first toner and a second mode in which the image is formed using the second toner, \n set a standby temperature in accordance with the mode indicated by the selection signal, and \n control a temperature of the fixing device to be the standby temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15995352', '16021097', '15678395', '14718380', '14551288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8085456004326046
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4730482884214718
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7749958692314913
- Mean Citation Score: 208.151438
- Max Citation Score: 229.78696
- Similarity Product: 184.81275097231384

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

Dataset: test