PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878684
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
When a developer image in which the amount of developer per unit area is substantially the same is formed over two adjacent heating regions and a difference between first target temperatures for two adjacent heating regions is outside a predetermined range, the first target temperature for one of the two adjacent heating regions is corrected to a second target temperature which is higher than the first target temperature, so that the difference between the first target temperatures for two adjacent heating regions is within a predetermined range.

Claim (Index 9):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a heating member having a plurality of the heat generating elements and heating the recording medium on which the developer image has been formed; and a pressing member that presses the recording medium toward the heating member, wherein the developer image on the recording medium is heated at a nip portion between the heating member and the pressing member, and wherein the first target temperature and the second target temperature are corrected so as to decrease as a value obtained by subtracting an amount of heat, released from the pressing member, from an amount of heat transferred from the heat generating elements to the pressing member increases.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09302
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15631394', '15876455', '15632874', '15632870', '12535826']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7876024453974423
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4906143928534741
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7579036401430456
- Mean Citation Score: 234.734182
- Max Citation Score: 265.49936
- Similarity Product: 197.79635981620788

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

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