PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless fixing rotator, a heater, a nip formation assembly, and an opposed rotator. The endless fixing rotator is rotatable in a direction of rotation. The heater heats the fixing rotator. The nip formation assembly is disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. The opposed rotator is pressed against the nip formation assembly via the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the opposed rotator. The nip formation assembly includes a nip former to contact the inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator, maintain a constant thickness against pressure from the opposed rotator, and transfer heat. The opposed rotator is shorter than the nip former in a longitudinal direction of the opposed rotator. The opposed rotator is disposed within an area opposite the nip former.

Claim (Index 3):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the nip formation assembly further includes a base and a stay disposed on an opposite side of a belt-side face of the nip former, the belt-side face of the nip former contacting the fixing rotator, and wherein the stay stiffens the base.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15440179', '14992643', '14467135', '14979686', '14467341']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8618391577960235
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5198903716589309
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8276442791823142
- Mean Citation Score: 354.77577599999995
- Max Citation Score: 361.0792
- Similarity Product: 267.7021400959015

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