PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016045
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a fixing device for preventing an increase in torque when a fixing belt starts to be driven. The fixing device may include a fixing belt that is rotatable; a pressure roller configured to pressure-contact an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt and to form a fixing nip portion between the pressure roller and the fixing belt. A contact member is located inside the fixing belt and includes a contact portion that contacts an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt. The contact portion includes a surface having a plate shape that faces the pressure roller and a plurality of protrusions that protrude from the surface toward the pressure roller.

Claim (Index 10):
The fixing device of  claim 1 , wherein\n the contact portion comprises a base portion and the surface of the contact portion is a surface layer stacked on the base portion, at least a part of the base portion comprises at least any one or combinations of aluminum, stainless, liquid crystal polymer (LCP), and polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), and at least a part of the surface layer comprises at least any one of or combinations polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), perfluoroalkoxy (PFA) fluorine synthetic resin, and a modifier thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12727
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15297666', '15644701', '15804459', '15379354', '13293561']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8019094477763394
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033889594583184
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7720573989445374
- Mean Citation Score: 238.512342
- Max Citation Score: 311.5272
- Similarity Product: 300.4481935325145

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

Dataset: test