PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16193541
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus includes: a fixing member including a heater as a heat source; and a hardware processor that uses pulse width modulation (PWM) control to control power supplied to the heater; wherein the hardware processor changes a duty of the PWM control within a half cycle of an input current of the PWM control.

Claim (Index 9):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a zero cross circuit that detects a timing of switching of an AC voltage output from a power supply between a positive value and a negative value,\n wherein the hardware processor sets the duty of the PWM control on the basis of the half cycle of the input current detected by using the timing detected by the zero cross circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.525
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16031643', '12585221', '13410821', '13343468', '15914277']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8216610511692733
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4849645791790338
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7879914039702494
- Mean Citation Score: 233.147496
- Max Citation Score: 242.89024
- Similarity Product: 175.51827430175786

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

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