PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921814
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "050000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing member, a rotatable pressuring member and an electric charge supplying device. The fixing member contacts a recording medium having a toner image and heats the recording medium. The pressuring member pressures the recording medium between the fixing member and the pressuring member. The electric charge supplying device electrically discharges electric charges with same polarity as toner and supplies the electric charges to the fixing member. An output current value electrically discharged by the electric charge supplying device is adjusted on the basis of a toner charged amount of the toner image. When the toner charged amount is equal to or more than a threshold value, the output current value is set to a normal current value. When the toner charged amount is less than the threshold value, the output current value is set to a current value higher than the normal current value.

Claim (Index 7):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the electric charge supplying device includes a grounding electrode at one side of an upstream side in a rotating direction of the fixing member from the electric discharge electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75862
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15869143', '15896427', '10716409', '12122938', '11979589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8281822123791124
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4858708230288977
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7939510734440909
- Mean Citation Score: 221.68746
- Max Citation Score: 232.34592
- Similarity Product: 165.88071941493988

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

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