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 24):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 23 , wherein the processor is further programmed to reset the counter after controlling the preliminary rotation of the fixing section for the determined execution time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02273
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15402567', '14134733', '14278726', '11192443', '12943223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7753070324586789
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5099698156938919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7487733107822002
- Mean Citation Score: 172.700498
- Max Citation Score: 261.15738
- Similarity Product: 162.6957619590211

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