PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154008
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "122000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing member, a heat source, a pressing member and a holding member. The holding member includes a base plate and a sliding sheet. The base plate includes a main body and a projection. The main body has one face facing an inner circumferential face of the fixing member and the other face opposite to the one face. The projection is formed on the other face. The sliding sheet has a through hole into which the projection is fitted. The sliding sheet is wrapped around the main body with the projection fitted into the through hole. The sliding sheet is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature higher than a maximum temperature where a temperature of the fixing member reaches when the fixing member is heated by the heat source.

Claim (Index 10):
A method to form the holding member of the fixing device according to  claim 7 , the method comprising:\n a step to wrap the sliding sheet around the main body and to fit the projection and the fixing pin into the through hole and the fixing hole respectively; a step to insert the fastening member around the fixing pin and to put the sliding sheet between the fastening member and the main body; and a step to subject the sliding sheet put between the fastening member and the main body to a heat treatment at a temperature higher than a maximum temperature where a temperature of the fixing member reaches when the fixing member is heated by the heat source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58929
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15672481', '14013206', '14617014', '15928156', '15654811']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8135195065433568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4893281370152942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7811003695905506
- Mean Citation Score: 234.453202
- Max Citation Score: 253.23865
- Similarity Product: 180.7698270755291

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