PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907513
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing device having: a heating member having a heat source; a pressing member; and a fixing member heated by the heating member and forming a nip portion passing through a recording material together with the pressing member; and a hardware processor that: estimates a temperature of the fixing member based on a temperature of the heating member; and estimates a durability state of the fixing member according to the temperature of the fixing member estimated.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein\n the hardware processor measures the control time of the heat source, and holds the measured control time as history information, and the hardware processor estimates the temperature of the fixing device based on predefined information that defines a relationship between the control time and the temperature of the fixing device when warm-up of the fixing device is started.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11905
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14928757', '13731432', '13413034', '12880327', '14173171']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8395384725685379
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.486586172694059
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.80424324258109
- Mean Citation Score: 242.757178
- Max Citation Score: 245.75832000000003
- Similarity Product: 181.22981580333715

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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