PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16207790
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "070000"]

Abstract:
An image heating apparatus includes a nip forming unit; a first and second heat generating elements for heating said nip; a thyristor for controlling electric power to the heat generating elements; a relay for switching an electric power supply destination between the first and second heat generating elements; and a controller. When the controller switches the destination from the first heat generating element to the second heat generating element during heating the images on continuously supplied sheets, the controller switches the thyristor from on-state to off-state, and then actuates the relay to switch the supply destination from the first heat generating element to the second heat generating element, and thereafter switches the thyristor from the off-state to the on-state. The controller sets timing of a period for switching the supply destination such that the image on the sheet is not influenced by a temperature drop in the period.

Claim (Index 8):
An apparatus according to  claim 7 , wherein said nip forming unit includes a cylindrical film, a roller contacting an outer surface of said film, and a back-up member provided in an inner space of said film and cooperating with said roller to form said nip through said film.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46875
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14463957', '14430034', '13484850', '15787227', '15389652']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8507432956061196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.507672556546994
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8164362217002071
- Mean Citation Score: 269.89622
- Max Citation Score: 297.70798
- Similarity Product: 192.6952509543121

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

Dataset: test