PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16287695
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a device for forming a trace of a image fixing nip, primary transfer nip, secondary transfer nip or developing nip is formed, a detecting device for detecting a width of the nip from the trace of the nip, and a controller for controlling fixing, transferring, developing or image forming parameter in accordance with the nip width detected by the detecting device. Proper image forming conditions are provided against the change of the nip width.

Claim (Index 1):
An forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming portion for forming an unfixed toner image on a recording material; a fixing portion including a fixing rotatable member, a heating member configured to heat said fixing rotatable member, a pressing rotatable member cooperating with said fixing rotatable member to form a fixing nip to fix the toner image on the recording material by heating the recording material carrying the toner image while nipping and feeding the recording material by the fixing nip; an image reader; and a controller configured to set a temperature condition for said heating member, wherein said image forming apparatus forms a toner image pattern for measuring a width of the nip, on the recording material by said image forming portion, fixes the toner image pattern on the recording material by heating the recording material while nipping and feeding the recording material by the fixing nip, and refeeds the recording material through the fixing nip, during which rotations of said fixing rotatable member and said pressing rotatable member are stopped to provide a trace of the fixing nip and the fixed toner image pattern, wherein said image reader reads a width of the nip trace in a recording material feeding direction, and wherein said controller changes the temperature condition in response to a result of the nip width read by said image reader.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12195
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13448694', '12827100', '14526851', '12861255', '12903735']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8042802135096002
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5160546571335208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7754576578719923
- Mean Citation Score: 300.08321
- Max Citation Score: 333.54605
- Similarity Product: 259.7407764235854

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test