PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056665
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "082000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on continuous paper; an amount-of-blank setting unit configured to set an amount of blank to be inserted between a plurality of jobs, by user operation; and a control unit configured to cause the image forming unit to form the image such that a blank of the amount of blank set by the amount-of-blank setting unit is inserted between the plurality of jobs.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising\n a separation mechanism configured to perform separation operation for a nip portion of the image forming unit, wherein the control unit executes adjustment operation for causing the image forming unit to form an image for consuming toner, between the plurality of jobs, when the amount of blank is equal to or longer than a prescribed separation operation distance required for the separation operation and there is no job equal to or longer than a preset continuous image formable distance among the plurality of jobs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10526
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15480953', '15002787', '15221239', '12415227', '15608122']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7969512082563347
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4769581519131003
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7649519026220113
- Mean Citation Score: 197.87054200000003
- Max Citation Score: 276.66782
- Similarity Product: 272.0668853088307

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