PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867800
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes determination means for determining the size of an image forming area of a medium, heating means for including an endless rotating body, plural heat-generating members which are formed in a perpendicular direction to a transporting direction, inclined by a predetermined angle, and divided by a predetermined length, and are disposed so as to come into contact with an inner side of the rotating body, and a switching unit which switches individual conduction, and heats the medium, pressing means for forming a nip by performing pressing and contact at a position of the plural heat-generating members, and nipping and carrying the medium in the transporting direction along with the heating means, and heating control means for controlling the switching unit to select and conduct heat-generating members and controlling the heating means to heat the medium.

Claim (Index 6):
The printing device according to  claim 5 , wherein\n the controller determines the size of the medium and a thickness or basis weight of the medium, and the controller controls the plurality of switches to select heat-generating resistors to be conducted, among the heat-generating resistors corresponding to the position through which the medium passes based on a result of the determination.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13889
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15458213', '15186780', '14716094', '15149277', '14715823']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7984437392038205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4883684603684164
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7674362113202802
- Mean Citation Score: 222.40499
- Max Citation Score: 264.8789
- Similarity Product: 233.35630114912985

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

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