PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16270128
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "070000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a fixing device comprises a heating rotator to contact a medium, such as a sheet of paper, on which a toner image has been disposed. A heater is inside the heating rotator to heat the medium. A pressurizing rotator is configured to press against the heating rotator to form a nip through which the medium passes. A controller is configured to drive the heater to heat the heating rotator to a target temperature. The controller is configured to set the target temperature according to a length of a standby time between an end of a first image forming process to a start of a second image forming process after the first image forming process.

Claim (Index 5):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a first sensor configured to detect a temperature of a sheet passing area of the heating rotator, the sheet passing area being an area of the heating rotator contacting the medium during fixing of the toner image on the medium; and a second sensor configured to detect a temperature of a non-sheet passing area of the heating rotator, the non-sheet passing area being an area of the heating rotator not contacting the medium during the fixing of the toner image on the medium, wherein the controller decreases the target temperature from an initial value on the basis of temperatures detected by the first sensor and the second sensor, and when the length of the standby time is longer than a threshold value, the controller resets the target temperature to the initial value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13559
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14609028', '14602766', '15698720', '15586318', '15063769']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.808097962547994
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4787273729093848
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7751609035841331
- Mean Citation Score: 212.304204
- Max Citation Score: 219.47813
- Similarity Product: 159.23177305144068

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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