PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16138467
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
A fusing apparatus for an image forming apparatus includes a fusing belt which rotates, a bushing guiding the fusing belt, a ring member rotatably coupled to the bushing and in contact with the fusing belt so as to rotate together with the fusing belt, and a sliding guide member, provided between the ring member and the sidewall of the bushing and at least partially disposed above a central axis of the fusing belt. The sliding guide member slidably supports the ring member and protrudes from the sidewall of the bushing such that a continuous gap is provided from a bottom of the sliding guide member to a bottom of the sidewall of the bushing.

Claim (Index 14):
The fusing apparatus as claimed in  claim 13 , wherein\n the protrusion is provided adjacent to a hole formed in a center of the ring member, the second side of the ring member includes another protrusion to contact the sidewall of the bushing, and the another protrusion is spaced apart from the protrusion in a radial direction of the ring member, and is provided farther from a center of the hole than the protrusion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15646534', '15646477', '14061219', '12926296', '13197507']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8233058370035495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.525538845651077
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7935291378683023
- Mean Citation Score: 242.49866000000003
- Max Citation Score: 372.1826
- Similarity Product: 272.31285459098814

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