PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878684
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
When a developer image in which the amount of developer per unit area is substantially the same is formed over two adjacent heating regions and a difference between first target temperatures for two adjacent heating regions is outside a predetermined range, the first target temperature for one of the two adjacent heating regions is corrected to a second target temperature which is higher than the first target temperature, so that the difference between the first target temperatures for two adjacent heating regions is within a predetermined range.

Claim (Index 10):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising\n a heating member having a plurality of the heat generating elements and heating the recording medium on which the developer image has been formed, wherein the recording medium is a sheet; wherein the heating regions are heating regions formed by dividing the surface of the recording medium in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the recording medium is conveyed; wherein the plurality of heat generating elements are arranged side by side in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the recording medium is conveyed; and wherein in a case in which a plurality of developer images is formed in the heating region in a direction in which the recording medium is conveyed, when an interval between a first developer image and a second developer image formed in the heating region is larger than a predetermined interval, in the heating region, a control temperature, when a non-image-formation region between the first developer image and the second developer image, the first developer image, and the second developer image are heated with the heat generating elements, is individually set on the basis of the image information; and when the interval between the first developer image and the second developer image formed in the heating region is not more than the predetermined interval, in the heating region, a control temperature when the non-image-formation region, the first developer image, and the second developer image are heated with the heat generating elements is set to a common control temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09302
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15631394', '15876455', '15632874', '15632870', '12535826']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7880309093986051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875007061281864
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7579778890715633
- Mean Citation Score: 234.734182
- Max Citation Score: 265.49936
- Similarity Product: 207.8007317811203

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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