PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933488
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a fuser including: a cylindrical member; an endless belt; a pressing member; a pressing roller; and a lateral guide contacting a lateral end of the endless belt. A part of an outer circumferential surface of the pressing roller is located on a downstream of the second nip area in a first direction. A guide surface of the lateral guide has: a first guide surface located on an opposite side to the pressing roller with respect to a virtual plane including the center of a first nip area and the center of rotation of the cylindrical member, and a second guide surface located on a side of the pressing roller with respect to the virtual plane, located on the downstream side of the rotation axis of the pressing roller in the first direction, and arranged on a same plane as the first guide surface.

Claim (Index 1):
A fuser comprising:\n a cylindrical member; an endless belt including an outer circumferential surface contacting the cylindrical member; a pressing member contacting an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt and sandwiching the endless belt together with the cylindrical member so as to form a first nip area; a pressing roller contacting the inner circumferential surface of the endless belt and sandwiching the endless belt together with the cylindrical member so as to form a second nip area; and a lateral guide including a guide surface contacting a lateral end of the endless belt,\n wherein a part of an outer circumferential surface of the pressing roller is located on a downstream of the second nip area in a first direction, the first direction being perpendicular to a rotation axis of the pressing roller and directing from a center of the first nip area toward a center of rotation of the cylindrical member, and \n wherein the guide surface includes a first guide surface and a second guide surface,\n the first guide surface being located such that the pressing member is located between the pressing roller and the first guide surface in a predetermined direction, the predetermined direction being perpendicular to the rotational axis and the first direction and \n the second guide surface being located such that the pressing member is located between the second guide surface and the first guide surface in the predetermined direction, the second guide surface being located on a downstream of the rotation axis of the pressing roller in the first direction, and the second guide surface being arranged on a same plane as the first guide surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.03846
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15015802', '15015685', '15016340', '15927589', '14604015']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8121621087715345
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4775269839828208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7786985962926631
- Mean Citation Score: 225.513434
- Max Citation Score: 237.30655
- Similarity Product: 186.3317309911936

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