PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135909
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["399", "033000"]

Abstract:
In a fixing device of the present invention, first and second movable members are each urged toward a flexible member so that the contact between contact surfaces of the first and second movable members and end faces of the flexible member are each maintained.

Claim (Index 1):
A fixing device comprising:\n a tubular flexible member; a first movable member disposed so as to face a first end face of the tubular flexible member and having a contact surface arranged to contact the first end face of the flexible member; and a second movable member disposed so as to face a second end face of the tubular flexible member and having a contact surface arranged to contact the second end face of the tubular flexible member, the flexible member being arranged to contact and convey a recording material bearing an unfixed image while the recording material is subjected to a fixing process, and wherein the first and second movable members are each urged toward the flexible member so that the contact between the contact surfaces of the first and second movable members and the end faces of the flexible member are each maintained.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58621
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14444884', '15299289', '15961189', '14083743', '15954716']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7593439039845071
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4829248407852381
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7317019976645802
- Mean Citation Score: 163.52510999999996
- Max Citation Score: 170.26924
- Similarity Product: 111.85052149810312

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

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