PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944846
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "092000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that includes an imaging part that forms a toner image; a fixing apparatus that fixes the toner image transferred to a sheet by a heating roller and a pressure roller extending in an axial direction; and a heat insulation duct that is disposed between the image former and the fixing apparatus and introduces a cooling medium therein along the axial direction, wherein the heat insulation duct has an opening portion that discharges the cooling medium introduced into the heat insulation duct to a region between the image former and the fixing apparatus.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein the opening area of the opening portion positioned at the upstream side is larger than the opening area of the opening portion positioned at the downstream side when viewed along a direction of a flow of the cooling medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05882
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14072883', '11267402', '12814083', '12621126', '13727961']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7894294920334132
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5086477920252632
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7613513220325981
- Mean Citation Score: 196.392836
- Max Citation Score: 205.1281
- Similarity Product: 109.9089768356204

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

Dataset: test