PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896100
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["323", "271000"]

Abstract:
A detection apparatus has an alternating-current voltage input unit and a generation circuit. The generation circuit generates a superimposition signal in which information indicating a timing of a zero cross in an alternating-current voltage inputted into the input unit and information indicating a voltage level of the alternating-current voltage are superimposed.

Claim (Index 16):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image carrier; a charging unit configured to uniformly charge the image carrier; an exposure unit configured to form an electrostatic latent image by exposing the image carrier; a developer unit configured to form a toner image by developing the electrostatic latent image; a transfer unit configured to transfer the toner image to a sheet; a fixing unit that comprises a heating unit and that is configured to fix a toner image to a sheet by heating the toner image using the heating unit; a generation unit configured to generate a pulse signal including a first edge that indicates a timing of a zero cross in an alternating-current voltage that is supplied from an alternating power supply and a second edge for which a time interval in relation to the first edge changes in accordance with a voltage level of the alternating-current voltage; and a control unit configured to receive the pulse signal, obtain the timing of the zero cross of the alternating-current voltage and the voltage level of the alternating-current voltage from the pulse signal, and control a power supplied to the heating unit based on the timing of the zero cross and the voltage level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65625
- Patent Class: 323.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14224519', '14225907', '12943420', '13515245', '12951746']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7171332348139189
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.498275874321275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6952474987646544
- Mean Citation Score: 189.881348
- Max Citation Score: 211.30212000000003
- Similarity Product: 125.89471881321433

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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