PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15994344
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "265000"]

Abstract:
According to an image forming apparatus and an image forming method of the present invention, an image is formed by arranging powders  200  on a surface of a resin image composed of sheet S and a color toner layer (resin layer  100 ) arranged thereon. The image forming apparatus includes: a powder spraying section  98  for supplying powders  200  on the surface of resin layer  100  which is adjusted to be in a softened state; and rubbing roller  74  for rubbing, from a side of resin layer  100 , the resin image to which powders  200  have been supplied.

Claim (Index 20):
The image forming method according to  claim 12 , wherein the powders are non-spherical powders.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79661
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15976102', '10409447', '11943929', '12203976', '11755484']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8211057787693743
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4995915165527539
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7889543525477123
- Mean Citation Score: 205.362376
- Max Citation Score: 268.0612
- Similarity Product: 180.0918272128582

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

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