PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16294933
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotary first fixing unit, a second fixing unit that is formed of an endless belt and is in contact with the first fixing unit at a position other than an uppermost point and a lowermost point in a vertical direction to form a fixing nip, and a lubricant retaining unit arranged at a position including the lowermost point to retain a lubricant to be supplied to an inner peripheral surface of the belt.

Claim (Index 5):
The fixing device according to  claim 2 , wherein the lubricant retaining unit is located at the position which the projection of the lubricant retaining unit along the vertical direction includes including the lowermost point of the second fixing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16294871', '15379354', '14502387', '15685779', '15804459']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5705443130010007
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5054160110856337
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5640314828094641
- Mean Citation Score: 246.476306
- Max Citation Score: 277.22638
- Similarity Product: 204.3183340083611

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

Dataset: test