PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
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 23):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 22 , further comprising:\n a counter configured to count a number of sheets on which an image formation job has been executed, wherein if the number counted by the counter is greater than or equal to the number of sheets stored in correspondence with the combination of thicknesses of the first sheet type and the second sheet type, the processor determines the execution time of the preliminary rotation as the corresponding stored execution time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02273
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15402567', '14134733', '14278726', '11192443', '12943223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7551763068047035
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4996255539374764
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7296212315179808
- Mean Citation Score: 172.700498
- Max Citation Score: 261.15738
- Similarity Product: 187.121578023262

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