PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059103
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a heating member configured to heat a sheet; a heat source configured to heat the heating member; a temperature sensor configured to acquire a temperature of the heating member; a switching circuit configured to supply a current to the heat source by switching a voltage inputted from an alternating-current power source between an energization state and a non-energization state; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: print processing of forming an image on the sheet; first energization processing of supplying the current to the heat source after a printing command is received and before the print processing is started; and second energization processing of setting a duty ratio of an output current of the switching circuit based on a detection result of the temperature sensor so that the heating member has a fixing temperature and supplying the current to the heat source, in the print processing.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to start the second energization processing in a case that a predefined time has elapsed after the first energization processing is executed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48485
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15223019', '13800093', '10924648', '12585221', '15266513']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8145733207206914
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812832327377052
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7812443119223927
- Mean Citation Score: 180.09595600000003
- Max Citation Score: 208.83406
- Similarity Product: 146.91349833847283

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