PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916342
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing unit including a pressing device and a heating device and that fixes an image formed on a recording medium by nipping the recording medium with the pressing device and the heating device; a driving device that drives the fixing unit; a load detector that detects a load applied to the driving device; and an abnormality detector that detects abnormality in the fixing unit with reference to the load generated when the recording medium passes through the fixing unit.

Claim (Index 4):
The fixing device according to  claim 3 , wherein the abnormality detector detects whether or not the fixing unit has any abnormality with reference to a relationship between the temperature detected by the temperature detector and a change in the load generated when the recording medium passes through the fixing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12837917', '13236692', '13731432', '13659441', '14641817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8144844990330441
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4726478791804432
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7803008370477841
- Mean Citation Score: 163.316832
- Max Citation Score: 166.95946
- Similarity Product: 114.3914227387333

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

Dataset: test