PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16239599
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image heating apparatus includes a plurality of heat generating elements, a plurality of temperature detecting elements, and an energization controlling portion for selectively controlling, based on the temperature detected by each of the plurality of temperature detecting elements, electrical power to be supplied to the plurality of heat generating elements. The plurality of temperature detecting elements are arranged in each of the plurality of heat generating elements, and the energization controlling portion controls electrical power supply to the plurality of heat generating elements for the purpose of heating a non-sheet-passing heating region, through which a recording material does not pass, among the plurality of heating regions, based on a temperature detected by a temperature detecting element that is farthest from a conveyance reference position of the recording material, among the plurality of temperature detecting elements arranged in the non-sheet-passing heating region.

Claim (Index 7):
An image heating apparatus, comprising:\n an image heating portion that includes a heater including a substrate and a plurality of heat generating elements provided on the substrate and aligned in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and heats an image formed on a recording material using heat of the heater; a plurality of temperature detecting elements for detecting temperatures of the plurality of heat generating elements; and an energization controlling portion for selectively controlling, based on the temperature detected by each of the plurality of temperature detecting elements, electric power to be supplied to the plurality of heat generating elements, in order to selectively heat a plurality of heating regions that are heated by the plurality of heat generating elements, wherein the plurality of temperature detecting elements are arranged in each of the plurality of heat generating elements, and wherein the energization controlling portion controls electric power supply to the plurality of heat generating elements for the purpose of heating a non-image heating region, through which the image formed on the recording material does not pass, among the plurality of heating regions, based on a temperature detected by a temperature detecting element, which is farthest from a conveyance reference position of the recording material, among the plurality of temperature detecting elements arranged in the non-image heating region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59322
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16239135', '15908604', '15988454', '15876455', '15631394']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.791098470995805
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.504309402352474
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7624195641314719
- Mean Citation Score: 266.951482
- Max Citation Score: 316.28418
- Similarity Product: 295.3474812537504

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

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