PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16192171
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "033000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a driving unit that supplies electric power to a heating element of a heater; a plurality of temperature detection portion disposed on a first potential side to detect temperatures of the heater; a control unit that is disposed on a second potential side isolated from the first potential side to control the driving unit on the basis of the temperatures detected by the temperature detection portion; a plurality of abnormality detection circuit portions disposed on the first potential side to output signals corresponding to detection results obtained by the plurality of temperature detection portion; and an abnormality transmission circuit portion that transmits an abnormality in the heater to the control unit on the basis of at least one of the signals output by the plurality of abnormality detection circuit portions.

Claim (Index 6):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the heater includes a plurality of heating areas, the plurality of temperature detection portion detects one of the heating areas using at least two temperature detection portion, and the at least two temperature detection portion are connected to different abnormality detection circuit portions of the plurality of abnormality detection circuit portions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54545
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13230327', '13309431', '14307375', '15657591', '12417279']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8340451870096994
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4694817428930046
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.79758884259803
- Mean Citation Score: 199.298632
- Max Citation Score: 204.645
- Similarity Product: 159.59166043370962

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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