PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021684
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "043000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a rubbing rotatable member capable of executing a rubbing treatment of rubbing a surface of a first rotatable member, a counter to count a number corresponding to a number of recording materials on that toner images are formed, an obtaining portion to obtain information that corresponds to an instruction of an operator and that corresponds to whether to permit the execution of the rubbing treatment, that is based on the number counted by the counter, a writing portion to write the information obtained by the obtaining portion in the storing portion of the fixing portion mounted in the mounting portion, and a controller to control whether to execute the rubbing treatment, that is based on the number counted by the counter, in accordance with the information stored in the storing portion of the fixing portion mounted in the mounting portion.

Claim (Index 10):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming station configured to form an unfixed toner image on a recording material; a fixing portion detachably mountable to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus, the fixing portion including a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member that cooperate with each other to form a nip for fixing the unfixed toner image formed on the recording material by the image forming station, the fixing portion further including a discrimination portion having identifying information for discrimination from another fixing portion replaceable with the fixing portion and a fixing portion storing portion capable of storing information; a rubbing rotatable member capable of rubbing a surface of the first rotatable member; a main assembly storing portion capable of storing information; a setting portion configured to set by an operator whether to permit the execution of a rubbing treatment of the rubbing rotatable member when a number of the recording materials fed to the fixing portion exceeds a predetermined number; a recording portion capable of recording set information corresponding to the setting relating to the permission of the rubbing treatment set through the setting portion, in the fixing portion storing portion in correlation with the identifying information of the fixing portion, and capable of recoding the set information and the identifying information in the main assembly storing portion in correlation with each other; and a controller configured to execute the rubbing treatment of the rubbing rotatable member when the set information stored in the fixing portion storing portion and the information acquired from the main assembly storing portion indicate the permission of the rubbing treatment for the fixing portion mounted in the main assembly of the image forming apparatus, and configured not to execute the rubbing treatment of the rubbing rotatable member when the set information stored in the fixing portion storing portion and the information acquired from the main assembly storing portion does not indicate the permission of the rubbing treatment for the fixing portion mounted in the main assembly of the image forming apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5082
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15227431', '15218181', '15196404', '15048208', '15049496']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8339918715566259
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5413247761676163
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.804725162017725
- Mean Citation Score: 302.822834
- Max Citation Score: 411.38458
- Similarity Product: 383.72509161036254

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