PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16144047
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a sheet tray, a pressure plate configured to lift up a sheet to a feedable position, a fixing device, a driving source configured to supply a driving force for a driving operation of driving the pressure plate and the fixing device, an interface, and a controller. A temperature of the fixing device is detected by a temperature sensor of the fixing device. The controller is configured to start heating the fixing device in response to receipt of a printing instruction, and start the driving operation on condition that the temperature reaches a particular temperature. The controller sets the particular temperature to a first temperature X1 when the pressure plate has placed the sheet to the feedable position, and a second temperature X2 lower than the first temperature X1 when the pressure plate has not placed the sheet to the feedable position.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a main body; a sheet tray configured to mount a sheet thereon, the sheet tray being attachable to and detachable from the main body; a pressure plate provided to the sheet tray, the pressure plate being configured to lift up the sheet to a feedable position; a fixing device including a heater and a temperature sensor, the fixing device being configured to convey the sheet and thermally fix a developer image on the sheet, the temperature sensor being configured to detect a temperature of the fixing device; a driving source configured to supply a driving force for a driving operation of driving the pressure plate to lift up the sheet and driving the fixing device to convey the sheet; an interface configured to receive a printing instruction; and a controller configured to:\n start heating the fixing device by the heater in response to receipt of the printing instruction through the interface; and \n control the driving source to start the driving operation on condition that the temperature detected by the temperature sensor reaches a particular temperature, \n wherein, in response to receipt of the printing instruction, the controller sets the particular temperature to:\n a first temperature X1 when the pressure plate has placed the sheet to the feedable position; and \n a second temperature X2 lower than the first temperature X1 when the pressure plate has not placed the sheet to the feedable position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51562
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15080665', '15223757', '15470242', '13940517', '13073422']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7725268609892494
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4845658384401416
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7437307587343387
- Mean Citation Score: 200.422052
- Max Citation Score: 224.67935
- Similarity Product: 168.81188895170988

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