PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16184268
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "068000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion; a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member; a belt unit including an endless belt configured to externally heat the first rotatable member and a supporting mechanism rotatably supporting the endless belt; a moving mechanism configured to move the belt unit so as to be movable between a contact position where the endless belt contacts the first rotatable member and a spaced position where the endless belt is spaced from the first rotatable member; and a controller configured to execute exchange of the endless belt or belt unit on the basis of information prompting exchange thereof, and execute a process in which the belt unit with a new endless belt or a new belt unit with a new endless belt is moved to the contact position and then the new endless belt is rotated for a predetermined time by the first rotatable member.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a recording material; a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member which are configured to form a nip therebetween in which the toner image formed on the recording material by said image forming portion is heated; a belt unit including an endless belt configured to externally heat said first rotatable member and a supporting mechanism rotatably supporting said endless belt; a moving mechanism configured to move said belt unit so as to be movable between a contact position where said endless belt contacts said first rotatable member and a spaced position where said endless belt is spaced from said first rotatable member; and a controller configured to execute exchange of said endless belt or said belt unit on the basis of information prompting exchange thereof, and execute a process in which said belt unit with a new endless belt or a new belt unit with a new endless belt is moved to the contact position and then said new endless belt is rotated for a predetermined time by said first rotatable member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48438
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14091669', '14083994', '13755723', '14032838', '13681987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8140252883966425
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.47416147229261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7800389067862392
- Mean Citation Score: 230.737034
- Max Citation Score: 246.85785
- Similarity Product: 210.3564206490487

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

Dataset: test