PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911261
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
To switch between four nip modes, a cam is driven by a single drive to move between first to fourth positions. At the first position, a first nip between a first pressing body and a fixing member has a first width, and a second nip between a second pressing body and the fixing member has a second width. At the second position, the first nip has a third width smaller than the first width, and the second nip has a width greater than or equal to the second width. At the third position, the first nip has a width greater than or equal to the first width, and the second nip has a fourth width smaller than the second width. At the fourth position, the first nip has a fifth width smaller than the first width, and the second nip has a sixth width smaller than the second width.

Claim (Index 3):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the first arm includes a first pressed portion configured to be pressed by the first cam, the second arm includes a second pressed portion configured to be pressed by the second cam, and in a direction in which the first pressing body, the fixing member, and the second pressing body are arranged, the first pressed portion is located nearer a rotation center of the cam assembly than the first pressing portion, and the second pressed portion is located nearer the rotation center of the cam assembly than the second pressing portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.17949
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15904512', '13623413', '13623139', '15472906', '15171242']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8299690104441392
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4916829204862841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7961404014483536
- Mean Citation Score: 234.161782
- Max Citation Score: 272.40408
- Similarity Product: 213.5832540901852

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test