PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958100
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "330000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, first and second power terminals both coupled to a power supply, a fixing unit including a heater, a first switch, a first detector, a second switch, and a controller. The first switch includes a triac and is turned on and off on the basis of a first control signal. The first detector generates a first detection signal corresponding to the turning on and off of the first switch. The second switch includes a relay and is turned on and off on the basis of a second control signal. The controller generates the first control signal, and generates, on the basis of the first detection signal, the second control signal. Each of the heater, the first switch, and the second switch is provided in a power supply path that couples the first power terminal and the second terminal to each other.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising\n a second detector that generates a second detection signal, the second detection signal corresponding to the turning on and off of the second switch, wherein the first switch, the heater, and the second switch are provided in this order in the power supply path, the second switch is coupled to the second power terminal, and the second detector is inserted between the first power terminal and a second path, the second path being a path, in the power supply path, between the heater and the second switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.32
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15131766', '13961971', '15249848', '15073306', '13309431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8040070924192801
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4683567932845978
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7704420625058119
- Mean Citation Score: 195.382892
- Max Citation Score: 216.39014
- Similarity Product: 174.4934622122097

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

Dataset: test