PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16110716
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a fixing device configured to perform heating by a fixing heater to fix an image on a recording material; a driver configured to supply power to the fixing device to control a temperature of the fixing heater; and a controller to be connected to the fixing device via a connector. The fixing device includes a loopback path for supplying a DC voltage to be applied from an outside of the fixing device back to the outside via an inside of the fixing device. With the loopback path, when the connector is brought into a non-connection state, supply of a DC voltage to the controller is interrupted, and thus supply of power to the fixing device is interrupted.

Claim (Index 14):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a fixing device configured to fix an image on a recording material by heat generated by a heater; a driver configured to supply power to the heater to cause the heater to generate heat; a temperature detector, which is provided on the fixing device, configured to detect a temperature of the heater; a control board including a controller configured to control supply of power to the heater by the driver based on output of the temperature detector; a connector including a first connection portion to be connected to the fixing device and a second connection portion to be connected to the control board, the connector being configured to connect the fixing device and the control board to each other; a loopback path configured such that a DC voltage to be applied to, via a first terminal of the second connection portion, a second terminal of the first connection portion is applied to a fourth terminal of the second connection portion via a third terminal of the first connection portion; and a first path configured such that the DC voltage to be applied to the fourth terminal via the loopback path is applied to the driver as a drive voltage for the driver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2931
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14236470', '12549616', '14307375', '12549612', '11345399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7760961322571449
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4685869354624485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7453452125776753
- Mean Citation Score: 199.558522
- Max Citation Score: 211.03976
- Similarity Product: 178.32240181558132

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

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