PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16241520
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes a toner image onto a recording material by applying heat and pressure to the toner image formed on the recording material at a nip provided in a conveyance path of the recording material, and includes: a heating source; a pressure roller and a pressure pad; and a sandwiching member, wherein the pressure pad includes a first main surface and a second main surface, and the first main surface is formed of a long plate-like member, the sandwiching member includes a long plate-like abutting part, and a width-direction center in an area included in the second main surface and corresponding to a recording material passing region provided in the nip bulges toward the abutting part side more than width-direction both ends of the area included in the second main surface and corresponding to the recording material passing region provided in the nip.

Claim (Index 2):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein an entire region of the area included in the second main surface and corresponding to the recording material passing region provided in the nip closely contacts the abutting part in the pressed state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48387
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15708372', '14953947', '14531313', '13020231', '15384115']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.813522743226671
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5147643534665668
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7836469042506605
- Mean Citation Score: 268.583928
- Max Citation Score: 279.0364
- Similarity Product: 162.6809999190331

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