PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16274949
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixer that fixes toner adhering to a sheet that passes through a fixing nip, the fixer including: an endless fixing belt that rotates; and a presser that presses the fixing belt to form the fixing nip between the fixing belt and the presser. The image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor that calculates an amount of the toner adhering to the sheet that passes through the fixing nip, and determines a degree of abrasion of the fixing belt, based on the amount of the toner calculated by the hardware processor.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus including a fixer that fixes toner adhering to a sheet that passes through a fixing nip, the fixer including: an endless fixing belt that rotates; and a presser that presses the fixing belt to form the fixing nip between the fixing belt and the presser, the image forming apparatus comprising\n a hardware processor that calculates an amount of the toner adhering to the sheet that passes through the fixing nip, and determines a degree of abrasion of the fixing belt, based on the amount of the toner calculated by the hardware processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28889
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16182826', '15710518', '16157526', '14039493', '13353691']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8184755168162342
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.484173053013287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7850452704359395
- Mean Citation Score: 247.947448
- Max Citation Score: 259.79352
- Similarity Product: 205.73342519318103

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

Dataset: test