PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16260673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "033000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus including a tubular film, a heater provided at an inside of the film, a protection element provided at the inside of the film, and at least one conductive member provided at the inside of the film. The protection element includes two terminals and a switch that turns off to shut off power to the heater when the heater abnormally generates heat. A first end of the conductive member is electrically connected to one of the terminals of the protection element. The conductive member is not coated with an insulator, and a second end of the conductive member projects out of the film so that the cost of the fixing apparatus is reduced.

Claim (Index 9):
The fixing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the contact-side connector and the backup-side connector are joined by welding.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28571
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15551772', '15630732', '16013824', '14962057', '14938236']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7905959428005873
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5204195109164448
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.763578299612173
- Mean Citation Score: 223.272394
- Max Citation Score: 331.53525
- Similarity Product: 246.1456584815383

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

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