PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes determination means for determining the size of a medium, heating means for including plural heat-generating members which are two-dimensionally arranged such that the heat-generating members are lined up along two parallel lines or more which are vertical to a transport direction of the medium and divided at locations on the parallel lines, and are disposed so as to come into contact with an inner side of the rotating body, and a switching unit which switches individual conduction, and heats the medium, pressing means for forming a nip by performing pressing and contact at a position of the plural heat-generating members, and heating control means for selecting a group of the heat-generating members which are lined up in the two-dimensional arrangement, conducting the selected group of the heat-generating members, and controlling the heating means.

Claim (Index 4):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n lengths in the orthogonal direction of the divided heat-generating resistor layers are defined based on the size of the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9359
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15584187', '15149277', '14716094', '14715823', '15867800']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8018157103540281
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5004053556473037
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7716746748833556
- Mean Citation Score: 236.740664
- Max Citation Score: 276.6385
- Similarity Product: 215.97743931990863

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

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