PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "067000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a fixing device, an inductive heater configured to heat the fixing device, and a magnetic shunt alloy disposed at an inner surface of the fixing device. A temperature detector is configured to detect a temperature of the magnetic shunt alloy. A thermostat contacting the magnetic shunt alloy is configured to shut off electric power to the inductive heater when the thermostat reaches or exceeds a first threshold temperature value. A controller is configured to reduce electric power to the inductive heater if the detected temperature of the magnetic shunt alloy is equal to or higher than a second threshold temperature value lower than the first threshold temperature value.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein the controller is configured to lower the rotation speed of the fixing device in stages corresponding to the plurality of threshold temperature values for the detected temperature of the magnetic shunt alloy.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23214
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14559772', '14927207', '14791669', '13689886', '15071355']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8108292190889111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4750674911094035
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7772530462909604
- Mean Citation Score: 163.66548600000004
- Max Citation Score: 182.29723
- Similarity Product: 127.19565970965088

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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