PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869238
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a cylindrical film; a pressing member, and a preventing member including a preventing surface configured to prevent movement of the film in a longitudinal direction and a film rotation guiding surface. As viewed in the longitudinal direction of the film, the preventing surface includes first and second regions positioned downstream and upstream, respectively, of a nip center line with respect to a recording material feeding direction. The first region retracts from a longitudinal film end surface relative to the second region. The second region continuously extends in the recording material feeding direction from a portion upstream of a nip center line to a portion downstream of the nip center line, and has a length, with respect to a rotational direction of the film, longer at the portion upstream of the nip center line than at the portion downstream of the nip center line.

Claim (Index 7):
A fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein no tension is applied to said film.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69492
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15869197', '13484960', '14816437', '14833445', '15001489']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8329281892973456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5090853139344128
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8005439017610524
- Mean Citation Score: 251.106304
- Max Citation Score: 296.11566
- Similarity Product: 183.6221213358056

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