PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16378019
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
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 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to control the preliminary rotation using only the sheet type used in the first image forming job, the sheet type used in the second image forming job, and the number of sheets in the first printing job.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02273
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16055648', '15402567', '14134733', '16027032', '12943223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8171269326407382
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4862775068705661
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.784041990063721
- Mean Citation Score: 188.666778
- Max Citation Score: 249.86945
- Similarity Product: 192.2417806287169

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