PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878684
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
When a developer image in which the amount of developer per unit area is substantially the same is formed over two adjacent heating regions and a difference between first target temperatures for two adjacent heating regions is outside a predetermined range, the first target temperature for one of the two adjacent heating regions is corrected to a second target temperature which is higher than the first target temperature, so that the difference between the first target temperatures for two adjacent heating regions is within a predetermined range.

Claim (Index 1):
A fixing apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of heat generating elements for heating a developer image formed on a recording medium in each heating region, the heat generating elements fixing the developer image formed on the recording medium to the recording medium by heating, wherein a first target temperature of the heat generating elements for heating the developer image is set based on a developer amount per unit area of the developer image in each of the heating regions, and the temperature of the heat generating elements is controlled to the first target temperature, and wherein in a case in which a developer image in which the amount of developer per unit area is substantially the same is formed over two adjacent heating regions and a difference between the first target temperatures for two adjacent heating regions is outside a predetermined range, the first target temperature for one of the two adjacent heating regions is corrected to a second target temperature, which is higher than the first target temperature, so that the difference between the first target temperatures for the two adjacent heating regions is within the predetermined range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09302
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15631394', '15876455', '15632874', '15632870', '12535826']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7877168580966608
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4897834877660733
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7579235210636021
- Mean Citation Score: 234.734182
- Max Citation Score: 265.49936
- Similarity Product: 200.46587822965623

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

Dataset: test