PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989520
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
Each of a plurality of cartridges configured to contain toner and to be detachably attached to an apparatus main body  2  includes a storage element that stores a type of thermal characteristic information on the toner which is classified into at least two types and which is contained in each of the cartridges. The image forming apparatus has a reading portion configured to read the type of the thermal characteristic information stored in the storage element, and a control portion switches a thermal fixing condition to control the fixing portion in accordance with a combination of the types of the thermal characteristic information that has been read by the reading portion.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a transfer member, (i) onto which a plurality of toner images of mutually different colors formed by the plurality of toners of mutually different colors are superimposed and transferred, and (ii) from which the toner image formed by the plurality of transferred toner images is transformed onto a recording material, and wherein\n the thermal fixing condition is a condition that prioritizes the performance of fixing to a recording toner, of a toner of which toner image is transferred last to the transfer member, from among the plurality of toners of different colors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9322
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14810153', '10668246', '13236298', '11318195', '12929556']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8064212982570482
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4645100192499154
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7722301703563349
- Mean Citation Score: 199.26042
- Max Citation Score: 203.95451
- Similarity Product: 163.45865198993266

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