PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16248662
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing section for heating an image forming medium; a measuring section for measuring a temperature difference between a temperature of a first part of the fixing section and a temperature of a second part of the fixing section; a heater for heating the fixing section; a reflection section for reflecting radiation from the heater; a power output section for changing a degree of curvature of the reflection section; and a processor for controlling the power output section to change the degree of curvature so as to increase an amount of the radiation reflected by the reflection section and then applied to the first part if the temperature difference is equal to or greater than a first threshold value.

Claim (Index 15):
The fixing method according to  claim 12 , further comprising:\n measuring a temperature difference between a temperature of the first part of the fixing section and a temperature of a second part of the fixing section, wherein changing the degree of curvature so as to increase the amount of the radiation reflected by the reflection section and then applied to the first part if the temperature difference is equal to or greater than a second threshold value after the degree of curvature is changed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38182
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14925075', '16043416', '15922244', '13862649', '10193434']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7831088506465036
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4608514410592962
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7508831096877829
- Mean Citation Score: 134.31783
- Max Citation Score: 139.88316
- Similarity Product: 98.36936252527

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

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