PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15902568
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
A image forming apparatus includes: a fixing member; a blowing section that generates airflow toward the fixing nip, the airflow being used for separating a sheet from the fixing member; and a hardware processor that performs a control of causing airflow amounts of the blowing section to be different in an axial direction of the fixing member so that part of the airflow flowing from the blowing section toward a non-sheet-passing region of the fixing nip is directed toward the fixing member.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein:\n the duct includes a pair of ribs defining the airflow path in communication with the at least one opening, wherein the pair of ribs is provided to each of the plurality of openings, and the shutter is configured to be capable of opening and closing an entrance of the airflow path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8125
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14036730', '12659486', '13784411', '15710518', '14089338']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8213481004951692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4884059542364513
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7880538858692974
- Mean Citation Score: 205.41108
- Max Citation Score: 228.18304
- Similarity Product: 156.02851208862302

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test