PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16195554
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
In a case where fixing processing ends in a state where a power supply line is switched by a switching unit according to a first print command so that power is suppliable to a second heating element, the switching unit switches the power supply line from the second heating element to a first heating element so that power is suppliable to the first heating element, the switching occurring regardless of presence or absence of reception of a second print command subsequent to the first print command.

Claim (Index 9):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material; a fixing unit including a rotation member and a heater configured to heat the rotation member, the heater including a plurality of heating elements including a first heating element and a second heating element having a length smaller than a length of the first heating element in a longitudinal direction of the rotation member, the fixing unit being configured to perform fixing processing to fix the image to the recording material by using heat of the heater, via the rotation member; a switching unit configured to switch a power supply line so that power is suppliable to any one of the plurality of heating elements; a detection unit configured to detect a temperature of the fixing unit; and a control unit configured to determine whether to switch the power supply line according to a temperature detection result of the detection unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17073
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14602766', '14609028', '13312111', '15845255', '16134740']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8038958359206478
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4428807228085775
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7677943246094409
- Mean Citation Score: 182.007774
- Max Citation Score: 186.43886
- Similarity Product: 170.0720791588521

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

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