PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916342
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing unit including a pressing device and a heating device and that fixes an image formed on a recording medium by nipping the recording medium with the pressing device and the heating device; a driving device that drives the fixing unit; a load detector that detects a load applied to the driving device; and an abnormality detector that detects abnormality in the fixing unit with reference to the load generated when the recording medium passes through the fixing unit.

Claim (Index 13):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium; and the fixing device according to  claim 1  that fixes the image on the recording medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12837917', '13236692', '13731432', '13659441', '14641817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7945993109819308
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4776222300969471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7629016028934325
- Mean Citation Score: 163.316832
- Max Citation Score: 166.95946
- Similarity Product: 106.75304368467808

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

Dataset: test