PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
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 21):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a fixing section configured to fix a toner image formed on a sheet; and a processor programmed to determine an execution time of a preliminary rotation of the fixing section and control the preliminary rotation of the fixing section for the determined execution time after execution of a first image forming job for performing image formation on a first sheet type having a first sheet width and before execution of a second image forming job for performing image formation on a second sheet type having a second sheet width longer than the first sheet width, the execution time being determined based on conditions including: a thickness of the first sheet type used in the first image forming job and a thickness of the second sheet type used in the second image forming job, and a number of sheets of the first sheet type used in execution of the first image forming job.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02273
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15402567', '14134733', '14278726', '11192443', '12943223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7576162904219595
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4838939518815536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7302440565679189
- Mean Citation Score: 172.700498
- Max Citation Score: 261.15738
- Similarity Product: 234.8859582786763

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