PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916342
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing unit including a pressing device and a heating device and that fixes an image formed on a recording medium by nipping the recording medium with the pressing device and the heating device; a driving device that drives the fixing unit; a load detector that detects a load applied to the driving device; and an abnormality detector that detects abnormality in the fixing unit with reference to the load generated when the recording medium passes through the fixing unit.

Claim (Index 14):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 13 , wherein the image forming device forms no image on the recording medium when whether or not the fixing unit has any abnormality is detected with reference to the load generated when the recording medium passes through the fixing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12837917', '13236692', '13731432', '13659441', '14641817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8124185213654286
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.485574245725037
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7797340938013894
- Mean Citation Score: 163.316832
- Max Citation Score: 166.95946
- Similarity Product: 100.81289822605372

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