PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980283
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device according to an embodiment includes an endless belt, a pressure element, a heating member, an adjustment mechanism, and a controller. The pressure element conveys and presses a sheet to the endless belt. The heating member is on the inner side of the belt and has a heat generating element for heating the belt. The adjustment mechanism moves the heating member or the pressure element to adjust the nip width between the heating member and the pressure element. The controller controls the adjustment mechanism so that A>B≥N is satisfied, where A is the nip width during a fixing process in which a colored material is fixed to the sheet, B is the nip width during a heating process conducted before the fixing process, and N is the length of the heat generating element in the sheet conveyance direction.

Claim (Index 9):
The adjustment method according to  claim 7 , wherein\n the fixing device further comprises:\n a temperature detection unit configured to detect a surface temperature of the endless belt, and \n the method further comprises:\n controlling at least one of the heating member and the pressure element so that the nip width is B and the heat generating element raises the temperature of the heating member when a temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is below a specified value in a standby state for the fixing process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48387
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15624568', '12779163', '11806619', '13413034', '12785534']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.810049367953595
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5194069377198658
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7809851249302221
- Mean Citation Score: 254.6135060000001
- Max Citation Score: 345.04736
- Similarity Product: 322.47188285236365

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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