PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16278630
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "070000"]

Abstract:
An image forming device includes: a fixing device that includes a fixing rotary member and thermally fixes a toner image onto a recording sheet by the fixing rotary member; a temperature sensor that senses a temperature of the fixing rotary member as a fixing temperature; a driving unit that drives the fixing rotary member to rotate; a torque sensor that senses a torque value of the driving unit in a torque sensing period in which at least one of the fixing temperature and a driving speed falls within a predetermined range, the driving speed being a speed of the driving unit for driving the fixing rotary member to rotate; and a prediction unit that predicts an operating life of the fixing device based on the sensed torque value.

Claim (Index 14):
The image forming device of  claim 13 , further comprising\n an internal temperature sensor that senses an internal temperature of the image forming device, wherein the prohibition unit prohibits the torque sensor from sensing the torque value when the temperature of the pressure rotary member falls out of a predetermined range relative to the internal temperature of the image forming device at start of a last warm-up before the torque sensing period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36842
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13446100', '13252543', '13048167', '12125993', '16218946']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8045661715535174
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4823629765810752
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7723458520562733
- Mean Citation Score: 204.261668
- Max Citation Score: 215.55446
- Similarity Product: 148.0331934466505

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

Dataset: test