PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034788
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image heating apparatus includes first and second rotatable members configured to form a nip for heating a toner image on a sheet, a rotatable rubbing member configured to rub an outer surface of the first rotatable member, and a contact-and-separation mechanism configured to move the rotatable rubbing member toward and away from the first rotatable member. A controller is configured to control a temperature of the first rotatable member, depending on a number of times a rubbing process is executed by the rotatable rubbing member, or a total time of contact of the rotatable rubbing member with the first rotatable member, when the rubbing process is executed.

Claim (Index 20):
An image forming apparatus according to  claim 17 , further comprising an air bowing mechanism configured to bow air toward a contact position of said rotatable rubbing member with said first rotatable member,\n wherein said air blowing mechanism blows the air when the second process is executed during the rubbing process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21154
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15049496', '15048403', '14674409', '14198959', '14197640']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8333516813245896
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5474695019496414
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8047634633870948
- Mean Citation Score: 372.995726
- Max Citation Score: 446.3284
- Similarity Product: 346.76495473876

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

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