PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fusing device and an image forming apparatus are described in which a pressing member and a heating member of the fusing device are disposed adjacent to one another in a first direction. The heating member includes a fusing belt having a first side in contact with the pressing member, a heat source, disposed at a second side of the fusing belt, to heat the fusing belt, and a heat source seat having a concave structure in which the heat source is mountable.

Claim (Index 8):
The fusing device of  claim 1 , wherein the pressing support member includes a leaf spring, the leaf spring including:\n a first portion, disposed at the first side of the heat source seat, to generate a force to press the heat source in the second direction toward the second side of the heat source seat, and a second portion, bent at an end of the first portion in the second direction, to support the heat source in the first direction so as to keep the heat source mounted inside the concave structure of the heat source seat.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06977
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15334748', '11934913', '12125312', '15285923', '12172425']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8393355207616864
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5103155114112259
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8064335198266404
- Mean Citation Score: 237.680984
- Max Citation Score: 293.38766
- Similarity Product: 186.1486723315668

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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