PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16274949
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixer that fixes toner adhering to a sheet that passes through a fixing nip, the fixer including: an endless fixing belt that rotates; and a presser that presses the fixing belt to form the fixing nip between the fixing belt and the presser. The image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor that calculates an amount of the toner adhering to the sheet that passes through the fixing nip, and determines a degree of abrasion of the fixing belt, based on the amount of the toner calculated by the hardware processor.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein the hardware processor\n divides a region forming the fixing nip in the fixing belt, into a plurality of regions arranged in a direction orthogonal to a passing direction of the sheet, to calculate the respective amounts of the toner adhering to portions of the sheet that pass through the plurality of regions, stores the respective degrees of abrasion of the plurality of regions, and adds the respective additional values of the plurality of regions calculated by the hardware processor, to the respective degrees of abrasion of the plurality of regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28889
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16182826', '15710518', '16157526', '14039493', '13353691']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8346403516218776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4936180813356893
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8005381245932588
- Mean Citation Score: 247.947448
- Max Citation Score: 259.79352
- Similarity Product: 184.40195278605933

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