PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16110716
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a fixing device configured to perform heating by a fixing heater to fix an image on a recording material; a driver configured to supply power to the fixing device to control a temperature of the fixing heater; and a controller to be connected to the fixing device via a connector. The fixing device includes a loopback path for supplying a DC voltage to be applied from an outside of the fixing device back to the outside via an inside of the fixing device. With the loopback path, when the connector is brought into a non-connection state, supply of a DC voltage to the controller is interrupted, and thus supply of power to the fixing device is interrupted.

Claim (Index 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the relay is configured to, under a state in which the fixing device and the control board are not connected to each other, interrupt the supply of power to the heater because the DC voltage is not applied to the relay via the fourth terminal as the drive voltage for the relay.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2931
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14236470', '12549616', '14307375', '12549612', '11345399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7944465483106741
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4810205914805572
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7631039526276624
- Mean Citation Score: 199.558522
- Max Citation Score: 211.03976
- Similarity Product: 161.15287732151984

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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