PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137672
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fuser includes a rotatable member, a belt, a pressure member, and a sliding member. The pressure member sandwiches the belt together with the rotatable member to form a nip portion. The sliding member is sandwiched between an inner peripheral surface of the belt and the pressure member. The sliding member includes a front surface, which faces the inner peripheral surface of the belt. The front surface includes a plurality of first dimples and a plurality of second dimples. The first dimples are arranged in a first zone, which corresponds to the nip portion. The second dimples are arranged in a second zone, which corresponds to a portion of the sliding member outside the nip portion. Each of the first dimples is of a shape that can release lubricant more easily than each of the second dimples.

Claim (Index 9):
The fuser according to  claim 1 , wherein one of the second dimples is positioned upstream from the nip portion in the moving direction, and another of the second dimples is positioned downstream from the nip portion in the moving direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90385
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16137646', '16137664', '15461801', '14231030', '14502387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8467552647087949
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5718407737913108
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8192638156170465
- Mean Citation Score: 322.65244199999995
- Max Citation Score: 533.8588
- Similarity Product: 381.2527543637752

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