PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a fixing device including a flexible cylindrical rotary member and an inner-surface opposing portion that opposes an inner surface of the rotary member at an end portion of the rotary member in a generatrix direction. The inner-surface opposing portion moves upstream in a recording material conveying direction in accordance with lateral shift of the rotary member in the generatrix direction. This restricts the lateral shift of the rotary member.

Claim (Index 14):
The fixing device according to  claim 12 , wherein the number of a unit of the inner-surface opposing portion and the end-surface opposing portion is two, and one of the units is provided at one end position of the backup unit in the generatrix direction, and the other unit is provided at the other end position of the backup unit in the generatrix direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14444884', '15299289', '14098966', '15150941', '14141687']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8401281303501472
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5321901592967998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8093343332448124
- Mean Citation Score: 287.513794
- Max Citation Score: 398.59744
- Similarity Product: 286.65553312849045

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

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