PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16212009
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "070000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes a toner image to a paper sheet, and the fixing device includes: a pressure roller; and a heating member, wherein the heating member includes: a pressure pad; a heating roller including a heater; and a fixing belt, the fixing device further includes a drive mechanism that controls rotation of the pressure roller and the heating roller, the fixing belt is driven while sliding on a surface of the pressure pad, when the heating roller rotates, and the drive mechanism applies pressure to the paper sheet, fixes the toner image to the paper sheet, switches between a contact state in which the pressure roller and the fixing belt are in contact with each other, and a separated state in which the pressure roller and the fixing belt are separated from each other, and switches to the contact state when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Claim (Index 10):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein the drive mechanism switches to the separated state when a temperature of the fixing belt exceeds a first threshold value during a period of the warm-up, which is a period of the contact state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.85965
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15970819', '11684207', '13161682', '11391337', '12859843']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8349066850774666
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813773630572033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7995537528754403
- Mean Citation Score: 239.92322400000003
- Max Citation Score: 258.47977000000003
- Similarity Product: 218.4335928271151

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

Dataset: test