PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969152
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressing member, a heat source, a detecting part and a control part. The pressing member forms a pressing area with the fixing member. A sheet is conveyed through the pressing area. The heat source includes a main heating part heating a center portion of the fixing member in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the sheet and a sub heating part heating both end portions of the fixing member in the sheet width direction. The detecting part detects a temperature of the end portion of the fixing member. The control part determines operation timings of the main heating part and the sub heating part based on the temperature detected by the detecting part such that the center portion and the both end portions of the fixing member are heated to a constant temperature.

Claim (Index 6):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming part which forms a toner image on a sheet; and the fixing device according to  claim 1 , which fixes the toner image on the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90566
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11221838', '12175571', '13472663', '11452635', '11679219']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8078700953972258
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914207550745615
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7762251613649594
- Mean Citation Score: 207.262552
- Max Citation Score: 213.9975
- Similarity Product: 130.2184999859333

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