PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100500
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus includes a tubular film, an elongate heater, a roller, and a lubricant interposed between the heater and the film. A temperature detecting member detects a temperature of the heater, a controller controls electrical power supplied to the heater so that a temperature detected by the temperature detecting member reaches a target temperature, and a guide member guides the film. The guide member has a plurality of protrusions protruding toward the inner surface of the film. In a longitudinal direction of the guide member, a first region of the guide member corresponds to the temperature detecting member, and a second region of the guide member does not correspond to the temperature detecting member. In addition, a width of one protrusion located at the first region is greater than a width of some of the plurality protrusions located at the second region.

Claim (Index 7):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein one end of each of the plurality of protrusions is nearer to one end of the guide member than one end of the temperature detecting member in the longitudinal direction of the guide member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15417553', '13833784', '14704017', '15862165', '13409654']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7974633611141528
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5492157287666601
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7726385978794036
- Mean Citation Score: 264.416526
- Max Citation Score: 414.73193
- Similarity Product: 358.6778627388692

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