PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16152817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "070000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes: a fixer that includes a heater controlled and lighted on the basis of a detection result of a temperature sensor, and melts and fixes an unfixed toner on a recording medium, using heat of when the heater is lighted; a lighting rate acquirer that acquires a first lighting rate of the heater after jam recovery and a second lighting rate of the heater before jam occurrence in a case where a jam of the recording medium occurs at a fixing nip position of the fixer; and a determiner that compares the first lighting rate with the second lighting rate, and determines whether the recording medium remains between the temperature sensor and the heater according to a result of the comparison.

Claim (Index 5):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein the lighting rate acquirer acquires the first and second lighting rates in association with a warming state of the fixer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1129
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15216316', '14311473', '14206301', '16031643', '14674987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8194475114842331
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4785858348023218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7853613438160421
- Mean Citation Score: 192.343244
- Max Citation Score: 215.63423
- Similarity Product: 159.41237384232522

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