PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a fixing section that fixes a toner image formed on a sheet. A controller controls a preliminary rotation of the fixing section after execution of a first image forming job and before execution of a second image forming job. Conditions for the preliminary rotation include types of sheets used in the first image forming job and the second image forming job, respectively, and a number of sheets used in executing the first image forming job.

Claim (Index 26):
The method according to  claim 25 , further comprising:\n storing different possible combinations of the thicknesses of the first sheet type and the second sheet type; and storing execution times for the preliminary rotation, each in correspondence with the number of sheets used in execution of the first image forming job and the different possible combinations of thicknesses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02273
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15402567', '14134733', '14278726', '11192443', '12943223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.755048866037214
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5004446386678548
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7295884433002782
- Mean Citation Score: 172.700498
- Max Citation Score: 261.15738
- Similarity Product: 184.63553249311923

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

Dataset: test