PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16215344
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a heating device to be used in a fixing device to fix a toner image to a medium has a heat pipe, a heater, and a heat conductive layer. The heater has a heating portion, and heats the medium via the heat pipe. The heat conductive layer is provided between the heating portion and the heat pipe, and conducts heat from the heating portion to the heat pipe.

Claim (Index 8):
The fixing device according to  claim 7 , wherein:\n the heater of the heating device has a fixing control circuit which controls a power to be supplied to the heater, based on a ratio of a width of the medium having a largest size which can be heated by the heating device and a width of the medium to become an object to be heated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12425433', '12785534', '13445390', '12929496', '14966911']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8306613349798738
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824208847195389
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7958372899538403
- Mean Citation Score: 214.90634600000004
- Max Citation Score: 221.6334
- Similarity Product: 158.63280678269862

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

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