PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16378019
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
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 9):
A method of controlling a fixing section for fixing a toner image on a sheet, including:\n executing a first image forming job; determining a type of sheet used in the first image forming job and a type of sheet used in second image forming job; determining a number of sheets used in the first image forming job; setting a preliminary rotation of the fixing section after the first image forming job but before the second image forming job based on the types of sheet used in the first image forming job, the type of sheet used in the second image forming job, and the number of sheets used in the first image forming job; and executing the second image forming job after the preliminary rotation has been set.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02273
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16055648', '15402567', '14134733', '16027032', '12943223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8189559089101975
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4723976653064298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7843000845498208
- Mean Citation Score: 188.666778
- Max Citation Score: 249.86945
- Similarity Product: 228.88494593210817

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