PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a fixing device, an inductive heater configured to heat the fixing device, and a magnetic shunt alloy disposed at an inner surface of the fixing device. A temperature detector is configured to detect a temperature of the magnetic shunt alloy. A thermostat contacting the magnetic shunt alloy is configured to shut off electric power to the inductive heater when the thermostat reaches or exceeds a first threshold temperature value. A controller is configured to reduce electric power to the inductive heater if the detected temperature of the magnetic shunt alloy is equal to or higher than a second threshold temperature value lower than the first threshold temperature value.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein the controller is configured to lower the rotation speed of the fixing device in stages corresponding to a plurality of threshold temperature values, each lower than the first threshold temperature value, for the detected temperature of the magnetic shunt alloy.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23214
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14559772', '14927207', '14791669', '13689886', '15071355']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8114978268563271
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4708482490758726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7774328690782817
- Mean Citation Score: 163.66548600000004
- Max Citation Score: 182.29723
- Similarity Product: 132.43227227603316

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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