PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031643
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixer including a halogen heater; and a hardware processor that controls power supplied to the halogen heater, wherein the hardware processor switches, according to a state of the fixer, a control state for controlling the power supplied to the halogen heater between a first control state in which a lower limit of an amount of power per cycle of the power supplied to the halogen heater is set to a first value and a second control state in which the lower limit of the amount of power per cycle of the power supplied to the halogen heater is set to a second value lower than the first value.

Claim (Index 12):
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable control program for an image forming apparatus comprising a fixer including a halogen heater, the computer readable control program causing a computer to perform controlling power supplied to the halogen heater,\n wherein in the controlling, a control state for controlling power supplied to the halogen heater is switched, according to a state of the fixer, between a first control state in which a lower limit of an amount of power per cycle of the power supplied to the halogen heater is set to a first value and a second control state in which the lower limit of the amount of power per cycle of the power supplied to the halogen heater is set to a second value lower than the first value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6087
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13410821', '14463957', '12585221', '14830942', '15902675']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8203704652413918
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4912931509337907
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7874627338106317
- Mean Citation Score: 236.78827
- Max Citation Score: 266.94543
- Similarity Product: 195.1726565777045

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

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