PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875856
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "046000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a first toner image forming unit for forming first toner image on a transfer belt with a first toner and a second toner image forming unit for forming a second toner image on the transfer belt with a second toner. A secondary transfer unit transfers the first and second toner images from the transfer belt to a sheet traveling in a sheet transport direction. A fixing unit fixes the first and second toner images to the sheet. A control unit controls the first toner image forming unit to form a first pattern, the second toner image forming unit to form a second pattern, and to leaving a margin on a downstream side of the sheet in the sheet transport direction that is greater than or equal to a circumferential distance of a fixing element in the fixing unit.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a first toner image forming unit configured to form a first toner image on a transfer belt using a first toner that fixes at a first temperature; a second toner image forming unit configured to form a second toner image on the transfer belt using a second toner that fixes at a second temperature that is different from the first temperature; a secondary transfer unit configured to transfer the first and second toner images from the transfer belt to a sheet traveling in a sheet transport direction; a fixing unit configured to fix the first and second toner images to the sheet traveling in the sheet transport direction; and a control unit configured to:\n control the first toner image forming unit to form the first toner image in a first pattern on the transfer belt, \n control the second toner image forming unit to form the second toner image in a second pattern on the transfer belt overlapping the first pattern, and \n control the secondary transfer unit to transfer the first pattern and the second pattern onto the sheet while leaving a margin on a downstream side of the sheet in the sheet transport direction, a length of the margin in the sheet transport direction being greater than or equal to a circumferential distance of a fixing element in the fixing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14551288', '15466038', '14341609', '13493059', '15233353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8107166078202394
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4838833957049745
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.778033286608713
- Mean Citation Score: 225.910406
- Max Citation Score: 245.64326
- Similarity Product: 184.10134519476173

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