PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16152817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "070000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes: a fixer that includes a heater controlled and lighted on the basis of a detection result of a temperature sensor, and melts and fixes an unfixed toner on a recording medium, using heat of when the heater is lighted; a lighting rate acquirer that acquires a first lighting rate of the heater after jam recovery and a second lighting rate of the heater before jam occurrence in a case where a jam of the recording medium occurs at a fixing nip position of the fixer; and a determiner that compares the first lighting rate with the second lighting rate, and determines whether the recording medium remains between the temperature sensor and the heater according to a result of the comparison.

Claim (Index 9):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the heater has a plurality of regions divided in an axial direction, lighting in the plurality of regions is respectively provided corresponding to the plurality of regions and is controlled on the basis of a detection result of the temperature sensor, and the determiner compares the first lighting rates in the plurality regions with one another, and determines whether the recording medium remains between the temperature sensor and the heater according to a result of the comparison.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1129
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15216316', '14311473', '14206301', '16031643', '14674987']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8197459591706652
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4765184455928178
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7854232078128804
- Mean Citation Score: 192.343244
- Max Citation Score: 215.63423
- Similarity Product: 163.09152688179196

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