PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16217106
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "333000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus encompasses a heat roller, a lamp, a use amount acquisition section, a switching controller and a cycle controller. The heat roller heats a sheet printed with a toner image. The lamp heats the heat roller. The use amount acquisition section acquires a use amount of the lamp. The switching controller repeats a processing from a moment at which the lamp is charged until the lamp is charged next after the lamp is not charged in a predetermined control cycle. The cycle controller sets the cycle based on the use amount.

Claim (Index 18):
The image forming method according to  claim 10 , further comprising:\n setting a threshold value of the use amount in a case in which the image forming apparatus fixes a toner image formed with a decoloring toner on the sheet to a value higher than a threshold value of the use amount if the image forming apparatus fixes a toner image formed with a non-decoloring toner on the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22449
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15712541', '12453686', '15937763', '15423750', '15925128']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7515556055599797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4755119522106804
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7239512402250499
- Mean Citation Score: 152.711288
- Max Citation Score: 245.35599
- Similarity Product: 225.5492293631744

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