PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16212009
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "070000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes a toner image to a paper sheet, and the fixing device includes: a pressure roller; and a heating member, wherein the heating member includes: a pressure pad; a heating roller including a heater; and a fixing belt, the fixing device further includes a drive mechanism that controls rotation of the pressure roller and the heating roller, the fixing belt is driven while sliding on a surface of the pressure pad, when the heating roller rotates, and the drive mechanism applies pressure to the paper sheet, fixes the toner image to the paper sheet, switches between a contact state in which the pressure roller and the fixing belt are in contact with each other, and a separated state in which the pressure roller and the fixing belt are separated from each other, and switches to the contact state when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Claim (Index 14):
The fixing device according to  claim 13 , wherein, the drive mechanism sets the contact state when at least one of the environmental temperature outside the fixing device, the temperature of the fixing belt, and the temperature of the lubricant is lower than the predetermined threshold value at a start of the warm-up, and the drive mechanism sets the separated state when one of the environmental temperature outside the fixing device, the temperature of the fixing belt, and the temperature of the lubricant is not lower than the predetermined threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.85965
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15970819', '11684207', '13161682', '11391337', '12859843']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.833462630297277
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4936191993703104
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7994782872045803
- Mean Citation Score: 239.92322400000003
- Max Citation Score: 258.47977000000003
- Similarity Product: 182.50279446337584

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