PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "043000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming station, a mounting portion for mounting one of fixing devices, each including a first roller and a second roller which cooperate to form a nip for fixing a toner image on a sheet fed from the image forming station, a rubbing roller configured to rub a surface of the first roller, a storing portion capable of storing information, a counter for counting sheets fed to the fixing device mounted on the mounting portion and to store a number indicative of the number counted by the counter in the storing portion of the fixing device, and an executing portion for effecting a rubbing treatment to the first roller of the fixing device, when the number counted by the counter on the basis of the number in the storing portion of the fixing device mounted on the mounting portion exceeds a predetermined number.

Claim (Index 7):
A apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein said counter resets the number information stored in said storing portion after said executing portion executes the rubbing treatment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15218181', '15227431', '16021684', '15196404', '15048208']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8430602505457856
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5502358388920086
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8137778093804079
- Mean Citation Score: 333.001754
- Max Citation Score: 437.35657
- Similarity Product: 364.3257148894143

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