PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944846
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that includes an imaging part that forms a toner image; a fixing apparatus that fixes the toner image transferred to a sheet by a heating roller and a pressure roller extending in an axial direction; and a heat insulation duct that is disposed between the image former and the fixing apparatus and introduces a cooling medium therein along the axial direction, wherein the heat insulation duct has an opening portion that discharges the cooling medium introduced into the heat insulation duct to a region between the image former and the fixing apparatus.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein a fin that adjusts a flow direction of the cooling medium discharged from the opening portion is disposed between the heat insulation duct and the image former.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05882
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14072883', '11267402', '12814083', '12621126', '13727961']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7936171609163006
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4831463312099885
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7625700779456694
- Mean Citation Score: 196.392836
- Max Citation Score: 205.1281
- Similarity Product: 150.29164705824255

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

Dataset: test