PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16215344
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a heating device to be used in a fixing device to fix a toner image to a medium has a heat pipe, a heater, and a heat conductive layer. The heater has a heating portion, and heats the medium via the heat pipe. The heat conductive layer is provided between the heating portion and the heat pipe, and conducts heat from the heating portion to the heat pipe.

Claim (Index 11):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an toner image forming device to form a toner image on a medium; and a fixing device to fix the toner image to the medium, the fixing device including: a cylindrical belt which is rotatably supported and is in contact with the medium; and a heating device to heat the medium via the belt; wherein the heating device has:\n a heat pipe having a first surface opposite to the medium via the belt; \n a heater having a heating portion opposite to a second surface of the heat pipe that is a surface at an opposite side of the first surface; and \n a heat conductive layer provided between the heating portion and the second surface of the heat pipe to conduct heat from the heating portion to the heat pipe.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12425433', '12785534', '13445390', '12929496', '14966911']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8152102487516697
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4668641783546471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7803756417119674
- Mean Citation Score: 214.90634600000004
- Max Citation Score: 221.6334
- Similarity Product: 183.8810664432764

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

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