PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a recording medium includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; a fixing unit that heats the recording medium bearing the unfixed toner image and fixes the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium at a nip portion; a heating member and a pressurizing member that touches the heating member and forms the nip portion therebetween; a first blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the heating member; and a second blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the pressurizing member. Upon the temperature of the non-sheet-passing area of the heating member exceeding a threshold temperature, the first blower blows without the second blower blowing, then the two blowers start blowing together.

Claim (Index 10):
A fixing apparatus that performs fixing processing, comprising:\n a first rotating member configured to be driven by a driving source; a second rotating member configured to be driven by the first rotating member, the first rotating member and the second rotating member being in contact with each other and forming a nip; and a blowing member configured to blow air to one of the first rotating member and the second rotating member, the one being not in contact with an unfixed toner image, which is a toner image that has not been fixed yet; wherein the fixing processing is processing of fixing the unfixed toner image to a recording medium by applying heat while conveying the recording medium with the unfixed toner image thereon at the nip, wherein the blowing member is, at least, driven in a case where a temperature of the one is lower than a threshold temperature when warming up of the fixing apparatus is started, and wherein air is blown only to, as viewed in a direction orthogonal to a recording medium conveyance direction, end portions of the one.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15215101', '14221164', '13622597', '14260904', '15691273']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8430627881900961
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5546024956521227
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8142167589362987
- Mean Citation Score: 373.874176
- Max Citation Score: 478.37463
- Similarity Product: 362.9807323187524

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

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