PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873088
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["347", "102000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.

Claim (Index 22):
The drying device according to  claim 20 , wherein each of the at least two second contact heat members includes a contact heat surface with a radius R that is equal to or less than 125 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21569
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15449557', '14871301', '15462449', '15641634', '15462183']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7332060923581485
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5105562592853599
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7109411090508696
- Mean Citation Score: 218.80245
- Max Citation Score: 275.0512
- Similarity Product: 199.8960051802636

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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