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 14):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a fixing section configured to fix a toner image to a sheet; a memory storing parameters of a preliminary rotation process in correlation with conditions including a type of sheet used in a first image forming job and a type of sheet used in a second image forming job, which is after in time the first image forming type, and a number of sheets used in the first image forming job; and a controller configured to control the preliminary rotation of the fixing section after execution of a first image forming job but before the second image forming job by reference to the parameters stored in the memory.

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): 0.8004710062053554
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.471421764315443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7675660820163641
- Mean Citation Score: 188.666778
- Max Citation Score: 249.86945
- Similarity Product: 225.40914384602013

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