PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873088
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["347", "102000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.

Claim (Index 24):
The drying device according to  claim 20 , wherein the media heater further includes a plurality of hot air blowers configured to blow hot air onto the medium that is contacted and conveyed by the first contact heat member and the second contact heat members.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21569
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15449557', '14871301', '15462449', '15641634', '15462183']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.73317071604702
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5107894179855872
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7109325862408767
- Mean Citation Score: 218.80245
- Max Citation Score: 275.0512
- Similarity Product: 199.0433853082657

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