PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052007
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus adds heat and pressure to a toner image formed on a sheet, fixes the toner image to the sheet. The apparatus detects a temperature of an end of a fixing device, cools the end of the fixing device, controls a cooling level by a cooling device in accordance with the temperature, predicts a discharge amount of ultra fine particles based on a parameter depending on the cooling level, controls an image forming operation such that the discharge amount of ultra fine particles is reduced in accordance with the discharge amount predicted.

Claim (Index 7):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a fixing device configured to, by adding heat and pressure to a toner image formed on a sheet, fix the toner image to the sheet; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of an end of the fixing device in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction; a cooling device configured to cool the end of the fixing device; a cooling controller configured to control a cooling level by the cooling device in accordance with the temperature of the end of the fixing device detected by the temperature sensor; an obtaining unit configured to obtain an ambient temperature of the fixing device based on the cooling level; a prediction unit configured to, based on the ambient temperature, predict a discharge amount of ultra fine particles that are discharged from the image forming apparatus; and an image formation controller configured to control an image forming operation by the image forming apparatus such that the discharge amount of ultra fine particles is reduced in accordance with the discharge amount predicted by the prediction unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08163
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14278726', '14221164', '14632196', '14069721', '15215101']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7892067478895601
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4434796171236054
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7546340348129646
- Mean Citation Score: 149.13930999999997
- Max Citation Score: 153.32475
- Similarity Product: 126.90519864088294

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

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