PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034788
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image heating apparatus includes first and second rotatable members configured to form a nip for heating a toner image on a sheet, a rotatable rubbing member configured to rub an outer surface of the first rotatable member, and a contact-and-separation mechanism configured to move the rotatable rubbing member toward and away from the first rotatable member. A controller is configured to control a temperature of the first rotatable member, depending on a number of times a rubbing process is executed by the rotatable rubbing member, or a total time of contact of the rotatable rubbing member with the first rotatable member, when the rubbing process is executed.

Claim (Index 8):
An image heating apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein said first rotatable member is provided on a side where said first rotatable member contacts the toner image on the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21154
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15049496', '15048403', '14674409', '14198959', '14197640']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8468271504362399
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5589994079622054
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8180443761888364
- Mean Citation Score: 372.995726
- Max Citation Score: 446.3284
- Similarity Product: 419.06108404479016

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