PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16230822
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotary endless fixing belt; a nip forming member disposed in an interior of the fixing belt; a rotary opposed member to contact the nip forming member via the fixing belt to form a nip together with the fixing belt; a heat source to directly heat the fixing belt at a portion other than the nip, including at lease one heat-generation part disposed outside lateral ends of a maximum area of the fixing belt where a recording medium passes through, wherein a recording medium carrying an unfixed image is conveyed to the nip and the fixing device fixes the unfixed image onto the recording medium; and a shielding member disposed between the fixing belt and the heat generation part of the heat source and configured to shield heat from the heat source at least at an area outside the maximum passing area of the recording medium.

Claim (Index 1):
A fixing device comprising:\n a rotary endless fixing belt; a nip forming member disposed in an interior of the fixing belt; a rotary opposed member so disposed as to contact the nip forming member via the fixing belt to form a nip together with the fixing belt; a heat source fixedly mounted on side plates of the fixing device and configured to heat the fixing belt directly at a portion other than the nip, the heat source comprising at lease one heat-generation part disposed outside lateral ends of a maximum passing area of the fixing belt for a recording medium where the recording medium passes through, wherein the recording medium carrying an unfixed image is conveyed to the nip and the fixing device fixes the unfixed image onto the recording medium; and a shielding member disposed between the fixing belt and the heat-generation part of the heat source and configured to shield the fixing belt from heat from the heat source at least at an area outside the maximum passing area for the recording medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37879
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15013807', '14584728', '15623085', '13738388', '14284360']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8177586191315889
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5181800879832911
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7878007660167591
- Mean Citation Score: 338.83568
- Max Citation Score: 351.41562000000016
- Similarity Product: 340.420266972921

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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