PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16182826
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "033000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a first fixing section, a second fixing section, the first fixing section and the second fixing section forming a fixing nip therebetween, a nip width adjusting section capable of adjusting a nip width of the fixing nip, a rotation speed detecting section that detects a rotation speed of the second fixing section, and a hardware processor that controls the nip width adjusting section to make the nip width equal to a predetermined reference nip width.

Claim (Index 10):
The fixing device according to  claim 8 , wherein\n the hardware processor determines that at least one of the first fixer and the second fixer has reached an end of life when an amount of adjustment for the relative distance exceeds a predetermined amount.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65625
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15902568', '16141145', '12929859', '14281092', '15710518']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8279049716364436
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4935579465732069
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7944702691301199
- Mean Citation Score: 226.427052
- Max Citation Score: 236.22081
- Similarity Product: 153.81106631967543

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