PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905561
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a plurality of heating members, a press roller, and an intermediate temperature control unit. The plurality of heating members are each in contact with an inside of a rotating body. The rotating body also has a width which is equal to or greater than a width of a recording medium to be printed. The intermediate temperature control unit has a medium width detecting unit configured to detect a width of the recording medium and a print width detecting unit configured to detect a print width of recording data and control a portion of the heating member corresponding to an intermediate heating area. The intermediate heating area is maintained at a set intermediate temperature which is lower than a set temperature of a printing heating area.

Claim (Index 24):
The fixing device of  claim 21 , further comprising:\n a plurality of switches connected to a power source and corresponding to the plurality of heating members, respectively, wherein each switch is openable and closeable, and wherein the controller is further configured to output a signal to turn off a switch operatively connected to one of the heating members in an area which is outside the width of the recording medium and inside the width of the plurality of heating members disposed in parallel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38596
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15250552', '15250624', '13154741', '14061962', '12880327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8031958495969773
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4955960983358478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7724358744708644
- Mean Citation Score: 212.603136
- Max Citation Score: 301.81793
- Similarity Product: 259.4229061763495

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

Dataset: test