PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918515
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device comprising a fixing belt, a rotating member arranged to be in engagement with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, a nip forming member to press the fixing belt, to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the rotating member, and sliding members on both ends of the fixing belt and to rotate together with the fixing belt.

Claim (Index 2):
The fixing device of  claim 1 , wherein\n a rotation center of each of the sliding members is arranged on an upstream side of a feeding direction of the printing medium into the fixing device compared to a rotation center of the rotating member, and a shortest distance between a tangential line parallel to the fixing nip, of an outer circumferential surface of each of the sliding members and the rotation center of the rotating member is greater than a shortest distance between the fixing nip and the rotation center of the rotating member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97143
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15033791', '14336332', '15177529', '14793949', '13751648']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7945718416071428
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5122893480322535
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7663435922496539
- Mean Citation Score: 213.253616
- Max Citation Score: 285.86053
- Similarity Product: 186.36029835038065

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

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