PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16252790
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["399", "331000"]

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a pressure roller and a pressure pad that form a nip portion, and a nip member disposed opposite to the pressure roller as viewed from the pressure pad. The pressure pad is formed of an elongated flat-plate member and includes a first main surface located on a pressure roller side and a second main surface located on a nip member side. The nip member includes a receiving portion abutting against the pressure pad in a pressed state. A portion of the second main surface which corresponds to a passage region of the recording material provided at the nip portion is provided with a plurality of recesses, and the entire perimeter of each of the plurality of recesses is surrounded by projections. Top surfaces of the projections are in close contact with the receiving portion in the pressed state.

Claim (Index 32):
The fixing device according to  claim 18 , further comprising a fixing belt being endless and surrounding the pressure pad about an axis parallel to the width direction to pass through the nip portion in a direction of transport of the recording material, wherein\n the fixing belt is pressed toward the pressure pad by the pressure roller in the pressed state and is heated by the heating source at a position other than the nip portion, and in the pressed state, the pressure roller is rotationally driven to cause the fixing belt to rotate following the rotation of the pressure roller while sliding on the first main surface, and in the pressed state, a toner image formed on the recording material contacts the fixing belt at the nip portion to be heated by the fixing belt heated by the heating source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29231
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16241520', '14531313', '14504626', '13692389', '15295275']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8308818379437026
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5053590777745312
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7983295619267855
- Mean Citation Score: 291.989144
- Max Citation Score: 330.39423
- Similarity Product: 283.8297043998563

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