PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fuser may include a rotatable member, a belt, a pressure member, and a sliding member. The belt and rotatable member may form a nip portion. The sliding member may be sandwiched between an inner peripheral surface of the belt and the pressure member. The sliding member may include a front surface, which faces the inner peripheral surface of the belt. The front surface may include a plurality of dimples designed to catch lubricant that moves along ridges between the dimples.

Claim (Index 4):
The fuser according to  claim 3 , wherein the third dimple intersects both a first borderline between the first dimple and the first ridge portion and a second borderline between the second dimple and the first ridge portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16137646', '14231030', '15461801', '13045182', '13293794']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8172615509576667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5324587770968046
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7887812735715806
- Mean Citation Score: 227.866852
- Max Citation Score: 389.0121
- Similarity Product: 336.33550359340313

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

Dataset: test