PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004832
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt, a pressure rotator that contacts the endless belt, a nip formation pad in the endless belt to form a fixing nip between the endless belt and the pressure rotator, a heater in the endless belt to heat the endless belt, a stay to support the nip formation pad, a contact-separation mechanism that presses the nip formation pad against the pressure rotator in a releasable manner, a holder movable between a nip formation position and a release position to support the stay, and an adjustment mechanism. The holder is provided with a slot to support the heater, and the adjustment mechanism makes a distance between the heater and the nip formation pad when the holder is at the nip formation position larger than a distance between the heater and the nip formation pad when the holder is at the release position.

Claim (Index 4):
The fixing device according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the adjustment mechanism includes a pressing member that causes elastic deformation to press the heater to an end of the slot when the holder is at the nip formation position and eliminates the elastic deformation when the holder is at the release position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.20408
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15160374', '15627693', '15377234', '15378214', '14497491']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8338549944580366
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5217689581999756
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8026463908322304
- Mean Citation Score: 339.891972
- Max Citation Score: 343.24887
- Similarity Product: 254.6155706121254

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