PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16217106
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "333000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus encompasses a heat roller, a lamp, a use amount acquisition section, a switching controller and a cycle controller. The heat roller heats a sheet printed with a toner image. The lamp heats the heat roller. The use amount acquisition section acquires a use amount of the lamp. The switching controller repeats a processing from a moment at which the lamp is charged until the lamp is charged next after the lamp is not charged in a predetermined control cycle. The cycle controller sets the cycle based on the use amount.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n a plurality of threshold values of the use amount for changing the cycle is predetermined, and if the use amount exceeds any one of the plurality of the plurality of the threshold values, the cycle controller changes the cycle corresponding to the exceeded threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22449
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15712541', '12453686', '15937763', '15423750', '15925128']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7741659999722974
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.470948057877732
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7438442057628409
- Mean Citation Score: 152.711288
- Max Citation Score: 245.35599
- Similarity Product: 242.7054423561252

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

Dataset: test