PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15970819
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a driving unit, a pressing roller, a heater, a fixing belt, a pressing roller, a nip formation pad that presses against an inner surface of the fixing belt toward the pressing roller via the fixing belt to form a nip, a separation mechanism, a lubricant between the fixing belt and the nip formation pad, and a processor to execute a warming-up operation of the fixing device. In the warming-up operation, before the heater heats the fixing belt, the separation mechanism moves the nip formation pad in a direction of separating the nip formation pad from the pressing roller to set a nip pressure lower than an ordinary nip pressure, and the driving unit rotates the pressing roller that rotates the fixing belt. Thereafter, the heater starts heating, and the separation mechanism moves the nip formation pad to contact the fixing belt at an ordinary nip pressure.

Claim (Index 4):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the processor controls the separation mechanism to release the movement of the nip formation pad and cause the nip formation pad to contact the fixing belt at the ordinary nip pressure after a predetermined time has passed once the heater starts heating the fixing belt in the warming-up operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96429
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14040866', '14084902', '14712439', '14084127', '14207748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8521443634208469
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5084461278826405
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8177745398670262
- Mean Citation Score: 316.6362900000001
- Max Citation Score: 322.02585
- Similarity Product: 240.77624424938853

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test