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 8):
The fixing device according to  claim 2 , wherein the load generated when the recording medium passes through the fixing unit and with reference to which the abnormality detector detects whether or not the fixing unit has any abnormality is a load generated during at least part of a passing period over which the recording medium passes through the fixing unit, the passing period being a period excluding an entering period over which the recording medium enters the fixing unit and an exiting period over which the recording medium exits the fixing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12837917', '13236692', '13731432', '13659441', '14641817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8123205051638591
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4861852582825942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7797069804757326
- Mean Citation Score: 163.316832
- Max Citation Score: 166.95946
- Similarity Product: 100.17165955066444

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