PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164009
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "329000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes a toner image onto a piece of paper by conveying the piece of paper formed with the toner image while nipping the piece of paper at a fixing nip, and includes: an endless belt that is rotated; a pressing member that presses the belt; a support member that supports the pressing member; a sheet wound around the pressing member along the conveyance direction; and a pressurizing member that forms the fixing nip with the belt, wherein a part of an upstream region of the sheet existing more on an upstream side in a winding direction than a contact region contacting the belt and the pressing member and a part of a downstream region of the sheet existing more on a downstream side in the winding direction than the contact region are interposed between the pressing member and the support member, and are fixed by pressing force.

Claim (Index 1):
A fixing device that fixes a toner image onto a piece of paper by conveying, in a predetermined conveyance direction, the piece of paper formed with the toner image while nipping the piece of paper at a fixing nip, the fixing device comprising:\n an endless belt that is rotated; a pressing member that is arranged on an inner side of the belt and presses the belt from the inner side; a support member that supports the pressing member; a sheet wound around the pressing member along the conveyance direction in a loosely fitted state; and a pressurizing member that is arranged on an outer side of the bell and forms the fixing nip with the belt by pressing, from the outer side of the belt, a part of the belt pressed by the pressing member, wherein in a case of defining, as a winding direction, a direction obtained by extending the conveyance direction along the sheet, a part of an upstream region of the sheet existing more on an upstream side in the winding direction than a contact region contacting the belt and the pressing member and a part of a downstream region of the sheet existing more on a downstream side in the winding direction than the contact region are interposed between the pressing member and the support member, and are fixed by pressing force with which the pressurizing member presses the belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48438
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15672481', '14617014', '13293561', '12782042', '13692389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7932663901118274
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4921979895682811
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7631595500574728
- Mean Citation Score: 248.464802
- Max Citation Score: 262.27414
- Similarity Product: 206.3144510187041

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

Dataset: test