PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866002
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a heating unit; a pressure roller; a first frame supporting the heating unit; a second frame engaging the first frame; a first gear; a second gear; and a fixing member. The second frame supports a shaft portion of the pressure roller. The first gear is provided at one end of the shaft portion and rotatable with the pressure roller. The second gear engages the first gear and transmits a drive force to the first gear. The fixing member has a first portion engaging the shaft portion and a second portion engaging the second frame. At least a part of the first portion engages the shaft portion at a position on a downstream side of the shaft portion in a second direction in which the shaft portion receives a force upon transmission of the drive force.

Claim (Index 13):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 12 , wherein the gear includes a gear portion having an outer peripheral surface on which gear teeth are provided, and\n wherein, in the first direction, a distance from the first region to the gear portion is smaller than a thickness of the gear portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83333
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15009122', '13493022', '11456224', '14057719', '14057775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8278385409276003
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5291714590273932
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7979718327375797
- Mean Citation Score: 258.057646
- Max Citation Score: 381.77823
- Similarity Product: 338.99613480727675

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