PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16220452
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "328000"]

Abstract:
The fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressing member, a pushing member and a cap. The fixing belt is endless and rotatable. The pressing member is configured to form a pressing area with the fixing belt. The pushing member is configured to come into contact with an inner circumferential face of the fixing belt via a lubricant and to push the fixing belt to the pressing member at the pressing area. The cap is configured to be attached to an end portion of the fixing belt through an elastic member. The cap has a contact part with which an end face of the fixing belt comes into contact. The contact part has a groove configured to store the lubricant leaked from the fixing belt. The groove is formed such that a width is varied along a radial direction of the cap.

Claim (Index 7):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image forming part configured to form a toner image on a sheet; and the fixing device, according to  claim 1 , configured to fix the toner image on the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71429
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14783327', '14560318', '15379354', '14962039', '14677208']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7796751908165482
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.467183967546157
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7484260684895092
- Mean Citation Score: 208.80462000000003
- Max Citation Score: 217.30229
- Similarity Product: 190.2637803565925

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

Dataset: test