PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905561
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a plurality of heating members, a press roller, and an intermediate temperature control unit. The plurality of heating members are each in contact with an inside of a rotating body. The rotating body also has a width which is equal to or greater than a width of a recording medium to be printed. The intermediate temperature control unit has a medium width detecting unit configured to detect a width of the recording medium and a print width detecting unit configured to detect a print width of recording data and control a portion of the heating member corresponding to an intermediate heating area. The intermediate heating area is maintained at a set intermediate temperature which is lower than a set temperature of a printing heating area.

Claim (Index 38):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image forming device configured to form a toner image by adhering toner to an electrostatic latent image; a transfer device configured to transfer the toner image formed by the image forming unit to a recording medium; a plurality of heating members in contact with an inside of a rotating body having a circular shape, wherein the rotating body is in contact with the recording medium to which the toner image is transferred by the transfer device, and wherein the recording medium extends in a direction perpendicular to a rotation direction of the rotating body with a width equal to or greater than a width of the recording medium to be printed; a press roller disposed on an outside of the rotating body and configured to correspond to the plurality of heating members, wherein the press roller is configured to be in pressure contact with the recording medium which passes between the rotating body and the press roller; a control device configured to:\n detect a width of the recording medium, \n detect a print width of recording data, \n compare the detected width of the recording medium and the detected print width of the recording data, \n control a portion of one of the heating members corresponding to an intermediate heating area positioned inside an area of the recording medium and outside a recording data area, wherein the intermediate heating area is maintained at a set intermediate temperature which is lower than a set temperature of a printing heating area, \n detect a continuous printing sheet number when the recording medium is continuously printed, and \n output a signal for decreasing the heat generated by the heating member when the detected continuous printing sheet number reaches a predetermined sheet number; and \n a transport configured to discharge, to a discharge port, the recording medium on which the toner is fixed by passing through between the press roller and the rotating body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38596
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15250552', '15250624', '13154741', '14061962', '12880327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8038121790674597
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4888265892438871
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7723136200851025
- Mean Citation Score: 212.603136
- Max Citation Score: 301.81793
- Similarity Product: 296.9520622835446

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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