PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16144047
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a sheet tray, a pressure plate configured to lift up a sheet to a feedable position, a fixing device, a driving source configured to supply a driving force for a driving operation of driving the pressure plate and the fixing device, an interface, and a controller. A temperature of the fixing device is detected by a temperature sensor of the fixing device. The controller is configured to start heating the fixing device in response to receipt of a printing instruction, and start the driving operation on condition that the temperature reaches a particular temperature. The controller sets the particular temperature to a first temperature X1 when the pressure plate has placed the sheet to the feedable position, and a second temperature X2 lower than the first temperature X1 when the pressure plate has not placed the sheet to the feedable position.

Claim (Index 9):
The electrophotographic image forming apparatus according to  claim 8 ,\n further comprising a sheet tray sensor configured to detect whether the sheet tray is attached to the housing or detached from the housing, wherein the pressure plate is moved to the second position in response to the sheet tray being detached from the housing; wherein the controller is configured to:\n store a flag indicating whether the pressure plate is placed at the first position; \n in response to the motor being driven by a particular amount, set the flag to a value indicating that the pressure plate is placed at the first position; and \n in response to the sheet tray sensor detecting that the sheet tray is detached from the housing, set the flag to a value indicating that the pressure plate is not placed at the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51562
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15080665', '15223757', '15470242', '13940517', '13073422']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7707815208148883
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4949379157408478
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7431971603074843
- Mean Citation Score: 200.422052
- Max Citation Score: 224.67935
- Similarity Product: 148.42942072917518

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

Dataset: test