PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16134337
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a position deviation detection unit configured to detect a position deviation of a recording medium in a width direction of the recording medium in a current job on a basis of (a) an amount of change over time in a difference between temperature detected by a first temperature detection element and temperature detected by a second temperature detection element and (b) information on temperature distribution on a fixing unit that occurred before the current job.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a recording medium; a fixing unit configured to apply heat to the toner image formed on the recording medium so as to fix the toner image to the recording medium, the fixing unit including a first temperature detection element configured to detect temperature of the fixing unit and including a second temperature detection element configured to detect temperature of the fixing unit, the second temperature detection element being provided at a position different from a position where the first temperature detection element is provided in a longitudinal direction of the fixing unit; and a position deviation detection unit configured to detect a position deviation of the recording medium in a width direction of the recording medium in a current job on a basis of (a) an amount of change over time in a difference between the temperature detected by the first temperature detection element and the temperature detected by the second temperature detection element and (b) information on temperature distribution on the fixing unit which occurred before the current job.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77083
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15988454', '16134740', '15986673', '14221164', '13658621']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7722052722893982
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4722303291780613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7422077779782645
- Mean Citation Score: 190.743182
- Max Citation Score: 193.55093
- Similarity Product: 149.2467845916903

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