PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fusing apparatus includes: a rotating endless belt; a pressing member pressing the belt from an inside of the belt; and a roller forming the fusing nip between the roller and the belt by pressing, from an outside of the belt, a position where the belt faces the pressing member, wherein a surface of the pressing member facing the roller via the belt includes: plane surface, and a curved surface adjacent to the plane surface at a downstream-side end in a conveying direction of the storage medium of the plane surface, and when viewed from a cross-section orthogonal to a central axis of the roller, an upstream-side end of the conveying direction of the plane surface is away from a straight line passing through the central axis of the pressure roller and parallel to the conveying direction, farther than the downstream-side end in the conveying direction of the plane surface.

Claim (Index 5):
The fusing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein a curvature radius of the curved surface is twice or less a curvature radius of an outer periphery surface of the roller with the fusing nip not formed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6129
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12753409', '11291108', '14604015', '13867713', '11865790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8192240003309169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5087984936673865
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7881814496645638
- Mean Citation Score: 288.03894
- Max Citation Score: 304.46176
- Similarity Product: 237.6339809011841

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

Dataset: test