PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16251156
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes determination means for determining a size of an image forming area of a medium, heating means for including an endless rotating body, plural heat-generating members which are formed in a perpendicular direction to a transport direction and divided by a predetermined length, and are disposed so as to come into contact with an inner side of the rotating body, and a switching unit which switches individual conduction of these heat-generating members, and heats the medium, pressing means for forming a nip by performing pressing and contact at a position of the plural heat-generating members, and nipping and carrying the medium in the transport direction along with the heating means, and heating control means for controlling the switching unit to select and conduct heat-generating members and controlling the heating means to heat the medium.

Claim (Index 15):
A temperature control method of a fixing device, comprising:\n determining a size of a medium on which a toner image is formed; moving an endless rotating body comprising a plurality of heat-generating members positioned in an orthogonal direction to a transport direction of the medium, the plurality of heat-generating members separated by a predetermined length and segmented into a plurality of groups; controlling a plurality of driver integrated circuits each associated with one of the plurality of groups, each of the plurality of driver integrated circuits including a switching element connected to one of the plurality of heat-generating members; and controlling independent selection one or more of the switching elements to continuously conduct one or more of the plurality of heat-generating members corresponding to a position through which the medium passes to heat the medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12676
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14715823', '15149277', '14716094', '15584187', '15963174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8132989696408631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4603716721736747
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7780062398941443
- Mean Citation Score: 208.943954
- Max Citation Score: 231.91498
- Similarity Product: 214.34345455192928

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

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