PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16215344
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a heating device to be used in a fixing device to fix a toner image to a medium has a heat pipe, a heater, and a heat conductive layer. The heater has a heating portion, and heats the medium via the heat pipe. The heat conductive layer is provided between the heating portion and the heat pipe, and conducts heat from the heating portion to the heat pipe.

Claim (Index 6):
The heating device according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the heater has a substrate on which the heating portion is to be formed, and a protective layer to coat the heating portion; and the heat pipe is connected to the protective layer of the heater via the heat conductive layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12425433', '12785534', '13445390', '12929496', '14966911']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.831556659150809
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.475798668553144
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7959808600910425
- Mean Citation Score: 214.90634600000004
- Max Citation Score: 221.6334
- Similarity Product: 171.2261432170272

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