PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16139328
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an elastic fixing roller, an endless belt, a pressing roller and a stretching part. The endless fixing belt is wound around the fixing roller with play. The pressing roller presses the fixing roller via the fixing belt to deform the fixing roller and forms a pressing area between the pressing roller and the fixing belt. A sheet passes through the pressing area. The stretching part is configured to pull the fixing belt in a direction opposite to the pressing roller and to stretch the fixing belt when a conveyance speed of the sheet conveyed to the pressing area is slower than a reference conveyance speed. The stretching part is configured to restrain deformation of the fixing roller to the pressing roller and to shorten length of the pressing area along a conveyance direction of the sheet.

Claim (Index 2):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein when the conveyance speed of the sheet conveyed to the pressing area is slower than the reference conveyance speed, a fixing pressure of the pressing area is decreased.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84615
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12481626', '11830457', '11785360', '13717844', '12714812']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8079227642500203
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5003327632524412
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7771637641502624
- Mean Citation Score: 243.654186
- Max Citation Score: 249.4678
- Similarity Product: 170.1836209150076

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