PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16251156
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes determination means for determining a size of an image forming area of a medium, heating means for including an endless rotating body, plural heat-generating members which are formed in a perpendicular direction to a transport direction and divided by a predetermined length, and are disposed so as to come into contact with an inner side of the rotating body, and a switching unit which switches individual conduction of these heat-generating members, and heats the medium, pressing means for forming a nip by performing pressing and contact at a position of the plural heat-generating members, and nipping and carrying the medium in the transport direction along with the heating means, and heating control means for controlling the switching unit to select and conduct heat-generating members and controlling the heating means to heat the medium.

Claim (Index 6):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a classifier configured to classify the size of the medium by another plurality of groups, and the heat controller controls the switching element to select the heat-generating members which belong to a heat-generating member group in association with the classification in advance and to conduct the selected heat-generating members at the same time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12676
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14715823', '15149277', '14716094', '15584187', '15963174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8107784387852555
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4779301592440799
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7774936108311379
- Mean Citation Score: 208.943954
- Max Citation Score: 231.91498
- Similarity Product: 176.75668129897235

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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