PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16136373
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "045000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit including a heater, an air blowing portion, a first opening, a first shielding member changing an opening width of the first opening with respect to a longitudinal direction, a second opening, a second shielding member changing an opening width of the second opening with respect to the longitudinal direction, a detecting portion detecting a deviation amount of the recording material with respect to a widthwise direction, and a controller controlling, on the basis of an output of the detecting portion and size information of the recording material, the opening widths of the first and second openings so as to be different from each other by moving the first and second shielding members, respectively.

Claim (Index 3):
An image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a common driving source configured to move said first and second shielding members,\n wherein said first shielding member includes a first shielding portion configured to shield said first opening, said first shielding portion being fixed to a first driven portion configured to receive drive from said driving source, and wherein said second shielding member includes a second shielding portion configured to shield said second opening, said second shielding portion being movable by a predetermined amount in a movement direction relative to a second driven portion configured to receive drive from said driving source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16001478', '13461133', '14227296', '15691273', '13622597']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8193364991431373
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4969448579311766
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7870973350219412
- Mean Citation Score: 214.315488
- Max Citation Score: 228.33989
- Similarity Product: 134.07192532663882

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

Dataset: test