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 6):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the reference nip width is a nip width of the fixing nip between the first fixer and the second fixer in a default state, and the hardware processor controls the rotation speed detector to detect the rotation speed of the second fixer in the default state as the reference rotation speed corresponding to the reference nip width.

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): 0.8293432529768113
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826195906475691
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7946708867438872
- Mean Citation Score: 226.427052
- Max Citation Score: 236.22081
- Similarity Product: 178.3366151658064

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