PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes determination means for determining the size of a medium, heating means for including plural heat-generating members which are two-dimensionally arranged such that the heat-generating members are lined up along two parallel lines or more which are vertical to a transport direction of the medium and divided at locations on the parallel lines, 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 heating control means for selecting a group of the heat-generating members which are lined up in the two-dimensional arrangement, conducting the selected group of the heat-generating members, and controlling the heating means.

Claim (Index 9):
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet comprising:\n a fixing device configured to fix a toner image on the sheet; and a heater controller configured to control the fixing device, wherein the fixing device comprising:\n a heater including an endless belt, and a heat-generating resistor layer, and for heating the sheet, the heat-generating resistor layer being divided in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a transport direction of the sheet, and masked by a masking layer patterned with a pattern in which a plurality of exposure portions lined up along two parallel lines or more which are vertical to the transport direction, the plurality of exposed portions are in contact with the belt as a plurality of heat-generating elements formed two-dimensionally arranged; and \n a pressing roller forming a nip by performing pressing and contact at a position of the plurality of heat-generating elements in the heater, which nip and carry the sheet in the transport direction with the heater.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9359
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15584187', '15149277', '14716094', '14715823', '15867800']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7834715559760554
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4887063875059545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7539950391290454
- Mean Citation Score: 236.740664
- Max Citation Score: 276.6385
- Similarity Product: 251.1206459055543

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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