PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167542
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "330000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt; a pressing unit that is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the belt and that rotates the belt; a first unit that is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the belt and that retains the belt in contact with the pressing unit; a second unit provided on the inner peripheral surface of the belt and located downstream of the first unit in a rotation direction of the belt, the second unit applying tension to the belt and including a portion that is in contact with a central portion of the belt in a width direction of the belt and that is farther in a direction toward the outer peripheral surface of the belt than both ends of the belt in the width direction of the belt; and a third unit provided on the inner peripheral surface of the belt and located downstream of the second unit in the rotation direction of the belt, the third unit applying tension to the belt and including a portion that is in contact with the central portion of the belt in the width direction of the belt and that is farther in the direction toward the outer peripheral surface of the belt than both ends of the belt in the width direction of the belt.

Claim (Index 2):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein a distance in a direction normal to the belt between a portion of the belt positioned farthest in the direction toward the outer peripheral surface at a position of the second unit and an end of the belt in the width direction of the belt at the position of the second unit is greater than a distance in the direction normal to the belt between a portion of the belt positioned farthest in the direction toward the outer peripheral surface at a position of the third unit and an end of the belt in the width direction of the belt at the position of the third unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.75
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15178616', '15668928', '10816912', '12656348', '14274871']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8271450316795085
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4864631293903684
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7930768414505945
- Mean Citation Score: 215.80457400000003
- Max Citation Score: 228.22601
- Similarity Product: 159.3904926592231

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test