PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945796
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a pressing unit and a heating unit that opposes the pressing unit; and plural guide portions disposed downstream of the fixing device and arranged in a direction crossing a transporting direction of a recording medium. An amount of projection of the guide portions is smaller in a region near a center of the fixing device than in a region near an end of the fixing device.

Claim (Index 8):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein a discharge unit to which the recording medium that has been transported is discharged is provided downstream of the fixing device, and\n wherein the guide portions are disposed between the fixing device and the discharge unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90244
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15158391', '13338765', '12560796', '13752977', '13153003']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8064547892550127
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4527523389844108
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7710845442279526
- Mean Citation Score: 134.51527000000002
- Max Citation Score: 138.81912
- Similarity Product: 105.29656688827517

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