PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a pressing unit and a heating unit that opposes the pressing unit; and plural guide portions disposed downstream of the fixing device and arranged in a direction crossing a transporting direction of a recording medium. An amount of projection of the guide portions is smaller in a region near a center of the fixing device than in a region near an end of the fixing device.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a fixing device including a pressing unit and a heating unit that opposes the pressing unit; and a plurality of guide portions disposed downstream of the fixing device and arranged in a direction crossing a transporting direction of a recording medium, wherein an amount of projection of the guide portions is smaller in a region near a center of the fixing device than in a region near an end of the fixing device, wherein the guide portions are disposed to face a surface of the recording medium discharged from the fixing device, the surface having an image formed thereon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90244
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15158391', '13338765', '12560796', '13752977', '13153003']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7849978532801701
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4626112079129038
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7527591887434435
- Mean Citation Score: 134.51527000000002
- Max Citation Score: 138.81912
- Similarity Product: 95.9227024680233

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

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