PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "044000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a drum unit having an image carrier carrying a toner image; a fixing unit having a heating member and pressure member forming a fixing nip part with the heating member and fixing the toner image on a recording medium at the fixing nip part; a cooling duct provided between the drum unit and the fixing unit preventing heat transfer from the fixing unit to the drum unit; and a cooling fan causing the air to flow to the cooling duct. The cooling duct is a movable duct being changeable to a first state in which the cooling duct is unopen towards the fixing unit and a second state in which the cooling duct is open towards the fixing unit. The cooling duct changes to the first state during image formation by the drum unit and changes to the second state after the image formation.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a pressing and separating mechanism pressing the heating member against the pressure member or separating the heating member from the pressure member; and a control section causing the pressing and separating mechanism to perform operation of pressing the heating member against the pressure member during the image formation processing and separating the heating member from the pressure member after the image formation processing, wherein under control performed by the control section, the pressing and separating mechanism changes the cooling duct to the second state upon performing the operation of separating the heating member from the pressure member after the image formation processing, and changes the cooling duct to the first state upon performing the operation of pressing the heating member against the pressure member during the image formation processing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10397338', '13461133', '15137433', '14711896', '13728130']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8073561434351288
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790731631522281
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7745278454068388
- Mean Citation Score: 209.468098
- Max Citation Score: 215.21906
- Similarity Product: 153.3994926132262

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

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