PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867800
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes determination means for determining the size of an image forming area of a medium, heating means for including an endless rotating body, plural heat-generating members which are formed in a perpendicular direction to a transporting direction, inclined by a predetermined angle, and divided by a predetermined length, 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 nipping and carrying the medium in the transporting direction along with the heating means, and heating control means for controlling the switching unit to select and conduct heat-generating members and controlling the heating means to heat the medium.

Claim (Index 15):
A fixing temperature control method of a fixing device which includes a plurality of heat-generating resistors, a plurality of switches, and a pressing roller and fixes a toner image on the medium by heating a plurality of heat-generating resistors that heat a medium, each heat-generating resistor being inclined from the transporting direction to a direction of a predetermined angle, and being divided by a predetermined length, individually switching conduction of these heat-generating resistors, the plurality of switch, each of the switches being connected to each heat-generation resistor, the method comprising:\n determining the size of the medium; and controlling the plurality of switch to select and conduct these switches connected to heat-generating resistors corresponding to a position through which the medium passes, among the plurality of heat-generating resistors and controlling heating of the heat-generating resistors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13889
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15458213', '15186780', '14716094', '15149277', '14715823']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7788561642722369
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4844986338150321
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7494204112265165
- Mean Citation Score: 222.40499
- Max Citation Score: 264.8789
- Similarity Product: 238.3727211660385

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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