PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15923380
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "323000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a heating member, a pressing member and a separating member. The heating member heats a toner transferred on a sheet. The pressing member forms a pressing area with the heating member. The toner is pressed at the pressing area. The separating member comes into contact with an outer circumferential face of the heating member and separates the sheet passed through the pressing area from the heating member. The heating member has a contact area with which the separating member comes into contact and a non-contact area with which the separating member does not come into contact. The heating member has a larger outer diameter at the contact area than an outer diameter at the non-contact area.

Claim (Index 1):
A fixing device comprising:\n a heating member heating a toner transferred on a sheet; a pressing member forming a pressing area with the heating member, the toner being pressed at the pressing area; and a separating member coming into contact with an outer circumferential face of the heating member and separating the sheet passed through the pressing area from the heating member, wherein the heating member has a contact area with which the separating member comes into contact and a non-contact area with which the separating member does not come into contact, and the heating member has a larger outer diameter at the contact area than an outer diameter at the non-contact area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78261
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14254912', '11512935', '14339595', '13046844', '15439619']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.801441646480601
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4659573345682369
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7678932152893646
- Mean Citation Score: 181.168968
- Max Citation Score: 195.35957
- Similarity Product: 150.64941175733566

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

Dataset: test