PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fuser may include a rotatable member, a belt, a pressure member, and a sliding member. The belt and rotatable member may form a nip portion. The sliding member may be sandwiched between an inner peripheral surface of the belt and the pressure member. The sliding member may include a front surface, which faces the inner peripheral surface of the belt. The front surface may include a plurality of dimples designed to catch lubricant that moves along ridges between the dimples.

Claim (Index 1):
A fuser comprising:\n a rotatable member; a belt comprising:\n an inner peripheral surface; and \n an outer peripheral surface facing the rotatable member; \n a heater arranged to heat the rotatable member; a pressure member configured to, with the rotatable member, sandwich the belt to form a nip portion; and a sliding member comprising a portion sandwiched between the inner peripheral surface of the belt and the pressure member at a position corresponding to the nip portion, the sliding member comprising a front surface facing the inner peripheral surface of the belt and a back surface facing the pressure member, wherein the front surface comprises a plurality of dimples which are arranged at a predetermined area corresponding to at least part of the nip portion, the plurality of dimples comprising:\n a first dimple; \n a second dimple adjacent to and spaced from the first dimple to form a first ridge portion between the first dimple and the second dimple; and \n a third dimple arranged to intersect all imaginary first lines passing between the first dimple and the second dimple and through the first ridge portion without intersecting the first dimple or the second dimple.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16137646', '14231030', '15461801', '13045182', '13293794']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7978727924818204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5315666994811374
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7712421831817521
- Mean Citation Score: 227.866852
- Max Citation Score: 389.0121
- Similarity Product: 377.3922492589832

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