PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908876
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, a fixing apparatus comprises a belt which is equipped with a conductive layer; an induction current generator which faces the belt and heats the conductive layer through an electromagnetic induction system; a magnetic material which faces the induction current generator across the belt; a measurement section which measures a state of the magnetic material; and a controller which controls a frequency applied to the induction current generator based on a measurement result of the measurement section in a case in which at least a print request is not received.

Claim (Index 17):
The fixing method according to  claim 11 , wherein\n the conductive layer comprises one of the group consisting of copper, stainless steel, aluminum, silver, nickel, and alloys thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92308
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15219547', '14927207', '14525348', '14559772', '14741689']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8462721092664309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5190612709836611
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8135510254381539
- Mean Citation Score: 257.025994
- Max Citation Score: 347.0846
- Similarity Product: 259.15344063425067

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