PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109971
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt, a heater in contact with an inner surface of the belt and divided into a plurality of heater blocks in a width direction of the belt, a pressing member positioned to face the heater with the belt interposed therebetween and configured to press a conveyed sheet against the belt and the heater, a temperature sensor disposed in each of at least half of the heater blocks, and a processor. The processor selects heater blocks based on width and position of the conveyed sheet to form a heat generation block, controls power supplied to the heater blocks so that a temperature of the heat generation block is within a predetermined temperature range, and selects the temperature sensor disposed in a heater block having a non-paper passing region and control an excessive temperature rise in the non-paper passing region.

Claim (Index 2):
The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the selected temperature sensor is disposed in a non-paper passing region for a maximum sheet which can be fixed in the heat generation block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17143
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15621670', '14226841', '14226859', '14704284', '14979686']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8085467691154766
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790699935592994
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7755990915598588
- Mean Citation Score: 152.425956
- Max Citation Score: 159.19579
- Similarity Product: 101.31571861409483

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

Dataset: test