PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981152
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "323000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressing member, a cover, and a separation member. The cover is movable between a closing position at which a conveyance path is formed and an opening position at which the conveyance path is exposed. The cover includes a recess. The separation member is movable between a contact position at which the separation member comes in contact with a face of the fixing member and a withdrawing position at which the separation member is separated from the fixing member. The separation member separates a medium from the face of the fixing member in a state in which the separation member is arranged at the contact position. A tip end part of the separation member enters an interior of the recess of the cover in a state in which the separation member is arranged at the withdrawing position.

Claim (Index 2):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , further comprising a pressure releasing part to set pressure of the pressing area to first pressure under which the toner on the medium is pressed in the state in which the cover is arranged at the closing position and set the pressure of the pressing area to second pressure that is lower than the first pressure in the state in which the cover is arranged at the opening position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.32609
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15981220', '14702331', '15616505', '15185269', '12453189']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8107515578039138
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856596624966805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7782423682731905
- Mean Citation Score: 218.007718
- Max Citation Score: 227.35924
- Similarity Product: 155.031934773407

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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