PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A roller usable in an image fixing device for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a first elastic layer; a second elastic layer provided closer to a center of the roller than the first elastic layer, the second elastic layer having a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction higher than that of the first elastic layer; a third elastic layer provided between the first elastic layer and the second elastic layer, wherein an indentation elastic modulus EIT 1  of the first elastic layer, an indentation elastic modulus EIT 2  of the second elastic layer, and an indentation elastic modulus of the third elastic layer satisfy E IT1 <E IT3 <I IT2 .

Claim (Index 12):
A fixing device comprising:\n a rotatable member; and a roller contacting an outside of said rotatable member to form a fixing nip between said rotatable member, wherein a recording material carrying an unfixed toner image is nipped and fed through said fixing nip so that the unfixed toner image is fixed on the recording material, wherein said roller includes, a first elastic layer; a second elastic layer provided closer to a center of said roller than said first elastic layer, said second elastic layer having a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction higher than that of said first elastic layer; a third elastic layer provided between said first elastic layer and said second elastic layer, wherein an indentation elastic modulus EIT 1  of said first elastic layer, an indentation elastic modulus EIT 2  of said second elastic layer, and an indentation elastic modulus of said third elastic layer satisfy, E IT1 <E IT3 <E IT2.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35294
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13446309', '12145104', '14562997', '14480811', '13154600']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.775389871715147
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4876528157956173
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.746616166123194
- Mean Citation Score: 202.640294
- Max Citation Score: 220.28307
- Similarity Product: 156.82702690810206

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

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