PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136373
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "045000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit including a heater, an air blowing portion, a first opening, a first shielding member changing an opening width of the first opening with respect to a longitudinal direction, a second opening, a second shielding member changing an opening width of the second opening with respect to the longitudinal direction, a detecting portion detecting a deviation amount of the recording material with respect to a widthwise direction, and a controller controlling, on the basis of an output of the detecting portion and size information of the recording material, the opening widths of the first and second openings so as to be different from each other by moving the first and second shielding members, respectively.

Claim (Index 19):
A fixing device according to  claim 18 , wherein one of said second driven portion and said second shielding portion is provided with an elongated hole extending in the longitudinal direction,\n wherein the other of said second driven portion and said second shielding portion is provided with a projection inserted in said elongated hole so as to be movable inside said elongated hole with respect to the longitudinal direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16001478', '13461133', '14227296', '15691273', '13622597']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8369102078524882
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4943007887381766
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.802649265941057
- Mean Citation Score: 214.315488
- Max Citation Score: 228.33989
- Similarity Product: 144.1892923778343

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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