PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031643
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixer including a halogen heater; and a hardware processor that controls power supplied to the halogen heater, wherein the hardware processor switches, according to a state of the fixer, a control state for controlling the power supplied to the halogen heater between a first control state in which a lower limit of an amount of power per cycle of the power supplied to the halogen heater is set to a first value and a second control state in which the lower limit of the amount of power per cycle of the power supplied to the halogen heater is set to a second value lower than the first value.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 8 , wherein the wear controller controls the power supplied to the halogen heater in the first control state when the extent of wear of the halogen heater calculated by the wear calculator is greater than the extent of wear of the halogen heater predicted from the number of sheets printed by the image forming apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6087
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13410821', '14463957', '12585221', '14830942', '15902675']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8362726124643017
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5021541783532534
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8028607690531969
- Mean Citation Score: 236.78827
- Max Citation Score: 266.94543
- Similarity Product: 167.13871935817838

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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