PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "033000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form an image on a recording material; a fixing portion including a cylindrical heat transfer member and a heating member contacting an inner surface of the heat transfer member and configured to fix the image on the recording material by heating the image-formed recording material by heat from the heating member through the heat transfer member; and a control unit configured to control a target temperature of the heating member. The control unit analyzes whether or not a plurality of pixels, of image data corresponding to the image to be formed on the recording material, in each interval corresponding to a circumferential length of the heat transfer member with respect to a recording material feeding direction are pixels for forming an image with a predetermined density or more, and sets the target temperature depending on an analyzation result.

Claim (Index 17):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming portion configured to form an image on a recording material; a fixing portion including a cylindrical heat transfer member and a heating member contacting an inner surface of said heat transfer member and a pressing member for forming a nip in which said pressing member nips and feeds the recording material in a cooperation with said heating member through said heat transfer member, and configured to fix the image on the recording material by heating the image-formed recording material by heat from said heating member through said heat transfer member; and a control unit configured to control a target temperature of said heating member, wherein for a plurality of pixels, of image data corresponding to the image to be formed on the recording material, in each interval corresponding to a circumferential length of said heat transfer member with respect to a recording material feeding direction, said control unit acquires a first number of pixels for forming an image with a predetermined density or more, and for a plurality of pixels, of an image which has already been printed on a side of the recording material opposing said pressing member, in each interval corresponding to a circumferential length of said pressing member with respect to the recording material feeding direction, said control unit acquires a second number of pixels for forming an image with a predetermined density or more, and said control unit sets the target temperature depending on the first number and the second number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10646865', '14092734', '14819926', '15701831', '15090993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7830819535304738
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4658161569022169
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7513553738676482
- Mean Citation Score: 208.24307600000003
- Max Citation Score: 218.55725
- Similarity Product: 194.466342453748

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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