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 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a coverage calculating section that calculates a coverage of a toner image formed on the sheet by the image forming section; and an average value calculating section that calculates an average value of the coverages of toner images on the sheets in image formations successively done a predetermined plural number of times, inclusive of the latest image formation, wherein when determining that the average value is over a predetermined threshold value, the control section reduces the predetermined number of sheets by a predetermined number.

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): 0.7979507420883308
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033162342402225
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7684872913035201
- Mean Citation Score: 207.253732
- Max Citation Score: 306.17188
- Similarity Product: 228.8266357616185

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