PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004593
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer member that transfers an image on the image carrier to a continuous medium, a fixing device that fixes the image transferred to the medium, and a transport member that is disposed downstream of the fixing device in a transport direction of the medium and that transports the medium. When the transport member transports the medium, the fixing device is passively rotated in accordance with movement of the medium.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the fixing device includes a first fixing member and a second fixing member that face each other with the medium therebetween, and wherein the heating operation is performed in a state in which the first fixing member and the second fixing member are separated from each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21053
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15452987', '15453074', '15228041', '15236634', '15233118']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7907219602537755
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4814573065169307
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.759795494880091
- Mean Citation Score: 193.879588
- Max Citation Score: 218.85297000000003
- Similarity Product: 171.32700548138558

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