PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16144047
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a sheet tray, a pressure plate configured to lift up a sheet to a feedable position, a fixing device, a driving source configured to supply a driving force for a driving operation of driving the pressure plate and the fixing device, an interface, and a controller. A temperature of the fixing device is detected by a temperature sensor of the fixing device. The controller is configured to start heating the fixing device in response to receipt of a printing instruction, and start the driving operation on condition that the temperature reaches a particular temperature. The controller sets the particular temperature to a first temperature X1 when the pressure plate has placed the sheet to the feedable position, and a second temperature X2 lower than the first temperature X1 when the pressure plate has not placed the sheet to the feedable position.

Claim (Index 8):
An electrophotographic image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a housing; a process unit configured to form a developer image on a sheet; a sheet tray attachable to and detachable from the housing, the sheet tray comprising a pressure plate configured to support the sheet mount thereon, the pressure plate being movable between a first position where the pressure plate lifts up the sheet and a second position where the pressure plate does not lift up sheet; a pickup roller configured to contact the sheet when the pressure plate is in the first position and feed the sheet to the process unit; a fixing device including a heater and a temperature sensor, the fixing device being configured to convey the sheet and thermally fix a developer image on the sheet, the temperature sensor being configured to detect a temperature of the fixing device; a motor configured to drive the pressure plate, the process unit, the pickup roller and the fixing device; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to:\n set a particular temperature to a first temperature X1 if the pressure plate is placed at the first position when receiving a printing instruction; \n set the particular temperature to a second temperature X2 lower than the first temperature X1 if the pressure plate is placed at the second position when receiving the printing instruction; and \n start heating the fixing device by controlling the heater in response to receipt of the printing instruction and start driving the motor on condition that the temperature detected by the temperature sensor reaches the particular temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51562
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15080665', '15223757', '15470242', '13940517', '13073422']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7714292326809621
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4910941230200722
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7433957217148731
- Mean Citation Score: 200.422052
- Max Citation Score: 224.67935
- Similarity Product: 155.98095756540894

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

Dataset: test