PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16274949
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixer that fixes toner adhering to a sheet that passes through a fixing nip, the fixer including: an endless fixing belt that rotates; and a presser that presses the fixing belt to form the fixing nip between the fixing belt and the presser. The image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor that calculates an amount of the toner adhering to the sheet that passes through the fixing nip, and determines a degree of abrasion of the fixing belt, based on the amount of the toner calculated by the hardware processor.

Claim (Index 15):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 14 , wherein the hardware processor acquires a correction value of correcting the additional value from at least one of external equipment connected to the image forming apparatus and an operator that receives an operation of the image forming apparatus, and\n corrects the additional value with the correction value acquired by the hardware processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28889
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16182826', '15710518', '16157526', '14039493', '13353691']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8351066620461326
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4896257813791657
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.800558573979436
- Mean Citation Score: 247.947448
- Max Citation Score: 259.79352
- Similarity Product: 196.31258207837104

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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