PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16162638
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "322000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a heating member, a pressing member, and a guide portion. The heating member heats a toner image. At least a surface of the heating member includes an elastic body. The pressing member presses a recording medium against the heating member. The guide portion is in no contact with the heating member, and guides the recording medium, which has been ejected from a contact portion at which the heating member and the pressing member contact each other, toward the downstream side in the moving direction of the recording medium. The distance from an exit of the contact portion to an end portion of the guide portion on the side of the exit of the contact portion differs in accordance with the position in the longitudinal direction of the heating member. The distance at a position at which the pressure between the heating member and the pressing member is low is longer than the distance at a position at which the pressure between the heating member and the pressing member is high.

Claim (Index 5):
The fixing device according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein the distance from the end portion of the guide portion on the side of the exit of the contact portion to the surface of the heating member is constant even at different positions in the longitudinal direction of the heating member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95238
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12659648', '15644701', '13326650', '10961525', '14066368']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.82886059655783
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4921077856795544
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7951853154700024
- Mean Citation Score: 226.230248
- Max Citation Score: 233.29202
- Similarity Product: 153.45606053281548

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

Dataset: test