PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965089
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "046000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance section, an image forming section, a fixing section, a sheet output tray, a toner container, a suitable product determining section, and a control section. The suitable product determining section determines whether the toner container loaded in an apparatus body is a suitable product. When the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container is not a suitable product, on condition of successive feeding of sheets, the control section allows, after every predetermined number of sheets have been subjected to an image forming operation, a fixing aging operation for stopping the image forming operation and rotating rotating bodies of the fixing section to be performed. When the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container is a suitable product, the control section keeps the fixing aging operation conditional on successive feeding of sheets from being performed.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 , further comprising:\n a conveyance section that conveys the sheet; and a sheet output tray to which the sheet having the toner image fixed thereon by the fixing section is discharged, wherein when the suitable product determining section determines that the toner container loaded in the apparatus body is not a suitable product, the control section controls, at a predetermined presentation timing, operations of the conveyance section, the image forming section, and the fixing section to allow formation of a predetermined image pattern on the sheet and discharge of the sheet serving as a check sheet to the sheet output tray, thus presenting the check sheet to the user, and wherein the predetermined image pattern is an image that enables visual check of surface conditions of the rotating bodies of the fixing section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15964943', '15899693', '11711281', '11679524', '11810994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7979819430885844
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5029499177874794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.768478740558474
- Mean Citation Score: 207.253732
- Max Citation Score: 306.17188
- Similarity Product: 231.02266120349168

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