PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969906
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes an image onto a recording material. The recording material is fed through and heated in a nip to fix the image. A nip plate is provided with a projection in a region downstream of the nip with respect to a feeding direction of the recording material, the projection projecting toward a roller and extending in a longitudinal direction of a cylindrical belt. The nip plate has a recess on a side opposite from an outside provided with the projection at a position corresponding to that of the projection with respect to the feeding direction, the recess extending in the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical belt. At least a part of one of the two end portions of a supporting member overlaps the recess of the nip plate with respect to the feeding direction of the recording material and a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical belt.

Claim (Index 14):
A fixing device according to  claim 7 , wherein a part of said roller in a circumferential direction thereof is elastically deformed by the projection of said nip plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55738
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15412394', '15442471', '15287987', '13755720', '13623368']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8308965715883319
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5296282446931482
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8007697388988134
- Mean Citation Score: 267.32276199999995
- Max Citation Score: 388.6964
- Similarity Product: 273.11606998367307

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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