PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986809
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "122000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an inexpensive image forming apparatus that reduces wasteful operation and is capable of determining whether a fixing unit is attached properly. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body, and a fixing roller that fixes a pattern composed of toner on paper by heating when conveying the paper on which the pattern is formed, and uses a fixing unit that can be attached to and detached from the image forming apparatus main body. A temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the fixing roller is provided in the fixing unit. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit that, after the fixing unit is attached, determines whether or not the fixing unit is attached properly to the image forming apparatus main body according to a magnitude relationship between the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and a preset first threshold value.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a display unit that, when it is determined that the fixing unit is not attached properly, issues a warning indicating that the fixing unit is not attached properly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26471
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14479174', '14932846', '15906319', '15133705', '12400902']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8115498736120316
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4924709313185275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7796419793826811
- Mean Citation Score: 199.425696
- Max Citation Score: 206.00848
- Similarity Product: 121.06965073857307

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

Dataset: test