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 15):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 13 , further comprising:\n a transport device that transports the recording medium after an image formed on one side of the recording medium is fixed by the fixing device, the transport device transporting the recording medium such that another image is formed on an other side of the recording medium by the image forming device; and a controller that controls the transport device such that the abnormality detector detects whether or not the fixing unit has any abnormality by allowing the recording medium to pass through the fixing unit before the temperature of the fixing unit reaches the fixing temperature at which the images are each fixed, and such that the images are formed on the recording medium by the image forming device after the temperature of the fixing unit has reached the fixing temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12837917', '13236692', '13731432', '13659441', '14641817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7956017041908894
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4717850828748807
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7632200420592885
- Mean Citation Score: 163.316832
- Max Citation Score: 166.95946
- Similarity Product: 112.8894338928008

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

Dataset: test