PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16266149
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "325000"]

Abstract:
A fixing method is provided including the step of fixing a toner on a recording medium with a fixing device. The toner comprises a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, and has a release agent amount indicator of from 0.01 to 0.20. The release agent amount indicator is represented by a ratio (P 2850 /P 828 ) of an intensity (P 2850 ) at a wave number of 2,850 cm −1  to an intensity (P 828 ) at a wave number of 828 cm −1  of the toner measured by a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy attenuated total reflection method. The fixing device includes a fixing rotator driven to rotate by a driving source, a pressure rotator driven to rotate by rotation of the fixing rotator, a fixing belt interposed between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator, and a heater to heat the fixing belt.

Claim (Index 5):
An image forming method comprising:\n forming an image with a toner; and fixing the image on a recording medium with a fixing device, wherein the toner comprises a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, wherein the toner has a release agent amount indicator of from 0.01 to 0.20, the release agent amount indicator represented by a ratio (P 2850 /P 828 ) of an intensity (P 2850 ) at a wave number of 2,850 cm \u22121  to an intensity (P 828 ) at a wave number of 828 cm \u22121  of the toner measured by a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy attenuated total reflection method, wherein the fixing device includes:\n a fixing rotator driven to rotate by a driving source; \n a pressure rotator driven to rotate by rotation of the fixing rotator; \n a fixing belt interposed between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator; and \n a heater to heat the fixing belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25352
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11184976', '14729180', '14190459', '11219740', '11687431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8250499520583333
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4958089194091751
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7921258487934175
- Mean Citation Score: 260.45257000000004
- Max Citation Score: 270.8323
- Similarity Product: 190.5115639676511

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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