PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "099000"]

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus includes: an endless fixing belt; a pad member having a receiving surface and a supported surface; a pressing rotator pressing the fixing belt against the receiving surface and forming a nip portion between an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt and the pressing rotator; a supporting member supporting the pad member; and a heating source to heat the fixing belt. The supporting member includes a base abutting on the supported surface of the pad member, and an erected wall erected from the base to partition a space inside the fixing belt into an upstream space and a downstream space. The erected wall is displaced upstream or downstream in a recording-material transport direction, from an intermediate position of the nip portion. The heating source is disposed in a larger one of the upstream space and the downstream space.

Claim (Index 1):
A fixing apparatus causing a toner image formed on a recording material to be fixed on the recording material, the fixing apparatus comprising:\n an endless fixing belt; a pad member having\n a receiving surface facing an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt and \n a supported surface located opposite to the receiving surface; \n a pressing rotator disposed to face an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, and forming a nip portion between the pressing rotator and the outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, the recording material being transported through the nip portion; a supporting member supporting the pad member; and a heating source to heat the fixing belt, the pressing rotator being rotationally driven, in a state of pressing the fixing belt in a pressing direction toward the receiving surface, to cause the fixing belt to rotate following rotation of the pressing rotator and to slide on the receiving surface, the supporting member including\n a base having a flat plate shape, disposed in a space inside the fixing belt, and abutting on the supported surface, and \n an erected wall having a flat plate shape and erected from the base in a direction away from a position of the pressing rotator, the erected wall partitioning the space inside the fixing belt into an upstream space located upstream in a recording-material transport direction in which the recording material is transported, and a downstream space located downstream in the recording-material transport direction, \n the erected wall being displaced upstream or downstream in the recording-material transport direction, from an intermediate position of the nip portion in the recording-material transport direction, the heating source being disposed in a larger one of the upstream space and the downstream space.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13751648', '15379354', '15618819', '11211692', '14189953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8216506685740745
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4726597115723041
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7867515728738975
- Mean Citation Score: 238.956106
- Max Citation Score: 240.72514
- Similarity Product: 201.93798512101768

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

Dataset: test