PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137672
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fuser includes a rotatable member, a belt, a pressure member, and a sliding member. The pressure member sandwiches the belt together with the rotatable member to form a nip portion. The sliding member is sandwiched between an inner peripheral surface of the belt and the pressure member. The sliding member includes a front surface, which faces the inner peripheral surface of the belt. The front surface includes a plurality of first dimples and a plurality of second dimples. The first dimples are arranged in a first zone, which corresponds to the nip portion. The second dimples are arranged in a second zone, which corresponds to a portion of the sliding member outside the nip portion. Each of the first dimples is of a shape that can release lubricant more easily than each of the second dimples.

Claim (Index 5):
The fuser according to  claim 4 , wherein each of the first dimples and each of the second dimples have hexagonal pyramid shape.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90385
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16137646', '16137664', '15461801', '14231030', '14502387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.845962743531075
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5755430899126214
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8189207781692297
- Mean Citation Score: 322.65244199999995
- Max Citation Score: 533.8588
- Similarity Product: 397.31101523003576

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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