PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965089
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "046000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance section, an image forming section, a fixing section, a sheet output tray, a toner container, a suitable product determining section, and a control section. The suitable product determining section determines whether the toner container loaded in an apparatus body is a suitable product. When the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container is not a suitable product, on condition of successive feeding of sheets, the control section allows, after every predetermined number of sheets have been subjected to an image forming operation, a fixing aging operation for stopping the image forming operation and rotating rotating bodies of the fixing section to be performed. When the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container is a suitable product, the control section keeps the fixing aging operation conditional on successive feeding of sheets from being performed.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming section that includes an image carrier and forms a toner image on a surface of the image carrier; a fixing section that nips, at a fixing nip between two rotating bodies, a sheet having the toner image formed in the image forming section and applies heat and pressure to the nipped sheet to fix the toner image on the sheet; a toner container that is removably loadable in an apparatus body of the image forming apparatus and contains toner for use in forming the toner image in the image forming section; a suitable product determining section that determines whether or not the toner container loaded in the apparatus body is a suitable product; and a control section that controls operations of the image forming section and the fixing section, wherein the image forming section includes a developing device that supplies to the image carrier the toner supplied from the toner container and forms the toner image on the image carrier, and wherein when the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container loaded in the apparatus body is not a suitable product, on condition that successive feeding of sheets for image formation is performed, the control section allows, after every predetermined number of sheets have been subjected to an image forming operation, a fixing aging operation for stopping the image forming operation and rotating the rotating bodies of the fixing section to be performed, and when the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container loaded in the apparatus body is a suitable product, the control section keeps the fixing aging operation conditional on occurrence of the successive feeding of the sheets from being performed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15964943', '15899693', '11711281', '11679524', '11810994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7984762682844787
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4971445383322844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7683430952892594
- Mean Citation Score: 207.253732
- Max Citation Score: 306.17188
- Similarity Product: 265.8249789580965

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

Dataset: test