PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918515
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device comprising a fixing belt, a rotating member arranged to be in engagement with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, a nip forming member to press the fixing belt, to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the rotating member, and sliding members on both ends of the fixing belt and to rotate together with the fixing belt.

Claim (Index 11):
The image forming apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein\n the fixing belt includes a first portion in contact with the sliding members and a second portion in non-contact with the sliding members while the fixing belt is rotating, the fixing nip is formed between the first portion and the second portion, and a radius of curvature of the first portion is greater than a radius of curvature of at least a section of the second portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97143
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15033791', '14336332', '15177529', '14793949', '13751648']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.795145675124169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5073369972810701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7663648073398591
- Mean Citation Score: 213.253616
- Max Citation Score: 285.86053
- Similarity Product: 207.5447666209286

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

Dataset: test