PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16378019
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a fixing section that fixes a toner image formed on a sheet. A controller controls a preliminary rotation of the fixing section after execution of a first image forming job and before execution of a second image forming job. Conditions for the preliminary rotation include types of sheets used in the first image forming job and the second image forming job, respectively, and a number of sheets used in executing the first image forming job.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a counter configured to count the number of sheets on which the image formation has been executed, and a counter controller configured to control whether to reset the counter between the first image forming job and the second image forming job based on the first image forming job and the second image forming job.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02273
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16055648', '15402567', '14134733', '16027032', '12943223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7997740854496359
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4763399111917884
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7674306680238512
- Mean Citation Score: 188.666778
- Max Citation Score: 249.86945
- Similarity Product: 212.4125997842073

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