PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986809
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "122000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an inexpensive image forming apparatus that reduces wasteful operation and is capable of determining whether a fixing unit is attached properly. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body, and a fixing roller that fixes a pattern composed of toner on paper by heating when conveying the paper on which the pattern is formed, and uses a fixing unit that can be attached to and detached from the image forming apparatus main body. A temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the fixing roller is provided in the fixing unit. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit that, after the fixing unit is attached, determines whether or not the fixing unit is attached properly to the image forming apparatus main body according to a magnitude relationship between the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and a preset first threshold value.

Claim (Index 8):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 7 , wherein when determining whether or not the fixing unit is attached properly to the image forming apparatus main body is continuously performed and it is continuously determined that the fixing unit is not attached properly, the display unit issues a warning indicating that there is an abnormality in the fixing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26471
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14479174', '14932846', '15906319', '15133705', '12400902']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.82814027914191
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5013037892322195
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7954566301509409
- Mean Citation Score: 199.425696
- Max Citation Score: 206.00848
- Similarity Product: 110.62364372047423

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