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 11):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming part that forms a toner image on a recording material; and the fixing apparatus according to  claim 1  that fixes the toner image formed by the image forming part on the recording material.

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): 0.8206634036678832
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4924580746292955
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7878428707640244
- Mean Citation Score: 233.147496
- Max Citation Score: 242.89024
- Similarity Product: 157.35074678863526

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