PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013733
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "330000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a rotatable cylindrical film, an elongated plate-like heater, a heat conducting member, and a supporting member, wherein the heat conducting member includes an extension portion which extends along a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the film from a portion extending in a direction along a thickness surface of the heater perpendicular to the first surface outside an end portion at one side of the heater in the rotation direction of the film and which contacts the inner surface of the film, wherein the supporting member includes a facing portion which faces the extension portion in a thickness direction of the heater, and wherein a void space is provided between the extension portion of the heat conducting member and the facing portion of the supporting member.

Claim (Index 5):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 , further comprising a roller which forms a nip portion in conjunction with the heater via the film.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65385
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15047534', '15295868', '15287987', '15294942', '14955334']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8196727569454036
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4665146595623086
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7843569472070941
- Mean Citation Score: 213.678268
- Max Citation Score: 231.3512
- Similarity Product: 200.5127592524529

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

Dataset: test