PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "336000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a cylindrical belt, a nip portion forming member contacting the belt, a halogen heater including a bulb filled with gas and having a sealing portion sealing the bulb, a filament inside the bulb and having a light emission portion, an external lead extending to outside the halogen heater, and a metal body arranged in the sealing portion and electrically connected the filament and the external lead, and a reflection member reflecting the radiation light of the halogen heater toward the nip portion forming member, the reflection member being long in a longitudinal direction of the halogen heater, wherein a longitudinal end of the reflection member is configured to lie in an area between an end of a light emission area constituted by the light emission portion of the halogen heater and the metal body in the longitudinal direction of the halogen heater.

Claim (Index 11):
A fixing device configured to fix an image formed on a recording material to the recording material, the fixing device comprising:\n a cylindrical belt; a nip portion forming member configured to make contact with an inner surface of the belt; a backup member configured to form a nip portion with the nip portion forming member via the belt; a halogen heater arranged in a hollow portion of the belt to radiate radiation light, the halogen heater including a slender bulb filled with gas, the bulb including, at a longitudinal end of the bulb, a sealing portion for sealing the bulb; and a reflection member configured to reflect the radiation light of the halogen heater, the reflection member being long in a longitudinal direction of the halogen heater, the reflection member being configured so that the longitudinal end lies on an inner side of the sealing portion in the longitudinal direction of the halogen heater.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62712
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15635049', '15454285', '15054387', '13426662', '15442471']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7803949366878346
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5443142007953203
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7567868630985831
- Mean Citation Score: 268.906484
- Max Citation Score: 402.28323
- Similarity Product: 390.88046838609694

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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