PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16184268
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "068000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion; a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member; a belt unit including an endless belt configured to externally heat the first rotatable member and a supporting mechanism rotatably supporting the endless belt; a moving mechanism configured to move the belt unit so as to be movable between a contact position where the endless belt contacts the first rotatable member and a spaced position where the endless belt is spaced from the first rotatable member; and a controller configured to execute exchange of the endless belt or belt unit on the basis of information prompting exchange thereof, and execute a process in which the belt unit with a new endless belt or a new belt unit with a new endless belt is moved to the contact position and then the new endless belt is rotated for a predetermined time by the first rotatable member.

Claim (Index 2):
An image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a swinging mechanism configured to swing said endless belt in a widthwise direction of said endless belt,\n wherein said controller operates said swinging mechanism when said controller executes the process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48438
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14091669', '14083994', '13755723', '14032838', '13681987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8110837001056441
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4957503202360486
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7795503621186847
- Mean Citation Score: 230.737034
- Max Citation Score: 246.85785
- Similarity Product: 155.4433730484724

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

Dataset: test